Llano Estacado PLUS!
If you look at the map on the project front page you will notice that the east boundary of this project does not stop at the Caprock Escarpment but includes part of the Rolling Plains and part of the Edwards Plateau as the eastern boundary of the Texas Panhandle is continued south to a point southeast of San Angelo before the boundary heads west to join the Pecos River as the southern boundary. The reason for this is frankly laziness on my part because this map was already drawn and designated as a "place" on iNaturalist and ready for import into this project.
Some of the most interesting places in our region, biologically speaking, are what Professor Tom Flores called "Caprock Canyonlands" in his book by the same title, and when one speaks of "the Llano Estacado" there is always a little uncertainty whether the canyons that cut through the Llano are to be included. This project includes not only the Canadian Breaks up to the Canadian River but all of the transverse canyons etched into the Caprock and the region to which their mouths open, along with some very interesting places such as Caprock Canyons State Park (still temporarily closed, alas), the Matador Wildlife Management Area (open, at least for day use), White River Lake, Twistflower Ranch (see https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/twistflower-ranch-environs-crockett-county-texas), and Monahans State Park, a huge and diverse region indeed.
But please keep in mind: this area is not synonymous with the Llano Estacado and you may need to know that when, example, you put plant observations into the project "Plants on the Llano Estacado," which is based on a different map that much more closely (but still imperfectly in my opinion) follows the true boundaries of the Llano Estacado.
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