Category:People From The Great Plains

Ah, The Great Plains, an overlooked area in the United States where prairies form. The States and Provinces that make up The Great Plains are The Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Prairies not only form in those states but also Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, and small parts of Winsconsin and Michigan.

During the Cretacous Period, The Great Plains used to be an inland sea. You can see what's notable and/or common in prairies from the states above.

Notable Landarks

 * The Badlands
 * The Black Hills
 * The Missouri River
 * Arkansas River

Common and Notable Plants

 * Green Ash
 * Cottonwoods
 * Bur Oak
 * Boxelder Maple
 * Elms
 * Willows
 * Quaking Aspen
 * Cedars and Junipers
 * A Few Conifers
 * Dogwoods
 * Paper Birch
 * Crab Apple
 * American Plum
 * Chokecherry
 * Russian Olive
 * Sunflowers
 * Various Grasses and Cereal Grains
 * Prarie Rose
 * Water Hemlock
 * Poison Hemlock
 * Smooth Sumac
 * Poison Ivy
 * Dandelion
 * Goatsbeard
 * New England Aster
 * Daisies
 * Yucca
 * Some Cacti
 * Sundews
 * Pink-and-white Lady's-slipper
 * Goldenrods
 * Indian Blanket
 * Indian Paintbrush
 * Leafy Spurge
 * Pasque Flower
 * Purple Loosestrife
 * Clovers

Common and Notable Animals
Extinct from most part of the plains *

Endangered but still notable **

Mammals

 * American Bison
 * Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
 * White-Tailed Prairie Dog
 * Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrel
 * Franklin's Ground Squirrel
 * Richardon's Ground Squirrel
 * Brown Bear *
 * American Black Bear *
 * Red Fox
 * Swift Fox **
 * Coyote
 * Gray Wolf *
 * American Badger
 * Wolverine *
 * Black-Footed Ferret **
 * Long-Tailed Weasel
 * Skunk
 * Muskrat
 * Plains Pocket Mouse
 * Plains Harvest Mouse
 * Deer Mouse
 * White-Footed Mouse
 * Brown Rat and House Mouse (the rats and mice that infest houses)
 * Southern Plains Woodrat
 * Prairie Vole
 * Sagebrush Vole
 * Meadow Vole
 * Bog Lemming
 * Pocket Gophers
 * North American Porcupine
 * White-Tailed Jackrabbit
 * Black-Tailed Jackrabbit
 * Desert Cottontail
 * Eastern Cottontail
 * Deer
 * Pronghorn
 * Bighorn Sheep
 * Various Shrews
 * Eastern Mole
 * Star-Nosed Mole
 * Some Bats

Birds

 * Mallard
 * Canada Goose
 * Snow Goose
 * Greater-White Fronted Goose
 * Gadwall
 * Common Goldeneye
 * Mergansers
 * Long-Tailed Duck
 * Scoters
 * Northern Pintail
 * Bufflehead
 * Canvasback
 * Scaup
 * Ring-Necked Duck
 * Redhead
 * Teals
 * Double-Crested Cormmorant
 * American White Pelican
 * Herring Gull
 * Ring-Billed Gull
 * Franklin's Gull
 * Black Tern
 * Forster's Tern
 * Common Tern
 * Ring-Necked Pheasant
 * Turkey
 * Sage Grouse
 * Sharp-Tailed Grouse
 * Gray Partridge
 * Prarie Chicken
 * Northern Bobwhite
 * Scaled Quail
 * Perigrine Falcon
 * Prairie Falcon
 * American Kestrel
 * Northern Harrier
 * Red-Tailed Hawk and other Beuto Hawks
 * Northern Goshawk
 * Sharp-Shinned Hawk
 * Cooper's Hawk
 * Burrowing Owl
 * Short-Eared Owl and other Tree Owls
 * Bald Eagle
 * Golden Eagle
 * Turkey Vulture
 * Great Blue Heron
 * Great Egret
 * Sandhill Crane
 * American Bittern
 * Whooping Crane **
 * Common Loon
 * White-Faced Ibis
 * American Coot
 * Virgina Rail
 * Yellow Rail
 * Sora
 * American Avocet
 * American Golden Plover
 * Killdeer
 * Piping Plover **
 * Long-billed Curlew
 * Eskimo Curlew (possibly extinct)
 * Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs
 * Willet
 * Upland Sandpiper
 * Spotted Sandpiper
 * Short-billed Dowitcher
 * Wilson's Pharlarope
 * Snipe
 * Least Sandpiper
 * Marbled Godwit
 * Rock Dove
 * Morning Dove
 * Passanger Pigeon *
 * Carolina Parakeet *
 * Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Cuckoos
 * Greater Roadrunner
 * Flycatchers, Thrushes, Warblers, and New-World Sparrows
 * Wrens
 * Black-Capped Chickadee
 * Swallows
 * Crow
 * Common Raven
 * Blue Jay
 * Black-Billed Magpie
 * Gray Catbird
 * Water and Sprague's Pipit
 * Cedar Waxwing
 * European Starling
 * House Sparrow
 * Bobolink
 * Meadowlark
 * Yellow-Headed Blackbird
 * Red-Winged Blackbird
 * Rusty Blackbird
 * Brewer's Blackbird
 * Great-Tailed Grackle
 * Common Grackle
 * Brown-Headed Cowbird
 * Orioles
 * Northern Cardinal
 * Evening Grosbeak
 * Redpolls
 * Various Finces

Reptiles and Amphibians

 * Painted Turtle
 * Snapping Turtle
 * Yellow Mud turtle
 * Ornate Box Turtle
 * Garter Snake
 * Eastern Yellow-Bellied Racer
 * Milk Snake
 * Rattlesnake
 * Bullsnake
 * Hognose Snake
 * Great Plains Skink
 * Prairie Skink
 * Short-Horned Lizard
 * Texas Horned Lizard
 * Lesser Earless Lizard
 * Six-lined Racerunner
 * Fence Lizard
 * Bullfrog
 * Chrous Frog
 * Leopard Frog
 * Great Plains Toad
 * American Toad
 * Woodhouse's Toad
 * Canadian Toad
 * Great-Plains Narrow-Mouthed Frog
 * Tiger Salamander

Fish

 * Yellow Perch
 * Sauger
 * Walleye
 * Shortnose Gar
 * Pallid and Shovelnose Sturgeon **
 * Paddlefish **
 * Suckers
 * Brook Stickleback
 * Burbot
 * Freshwater Drum
 * Northern Pike
 * Darters
 * Minnows, Shiners, Chubs, and Daces
 * Some Sculpins
 * Mosquitofish
 * Common Carp
 * Plains Toppminnow
 * Plains Killifish
 * Orange-Spotted Sunfish, and other sunfish but the Orange-Spotted is the most widley distributed of them.
 * White Bass
 * American Eel
 * Rainbow Trout
 * Brown Trout
 * Lake Trout
 * Chinnook, Coho, and Sockeye Salmon
 * Rainbow Smelt
 * Gizzard Shad

Invertebrates

 * Freshwater Jellyfish
 * Hydras (not the greek mythological creature)
 * Byrozoans
 * Freshwater Sponges
 * Water Scorpions
 * Tarantulas and other Spiders
 * Northern Scorpion
 * Psudeoscorpions
 * Ticks
 * Velvet Mites
 * Water Mites
 * Giant Water Bugs
 * Water Striders
 * Bugs that infest houses
 * Earwigs
 * Eartworms
 * Leeches
 * Devil Crayfish
 * Calico Crayfish
 * Verile Crayfish
 * Tadpole Shrimps
 * Fairy Shrimps
 * Various land and freshwater snails
 * Slugs
 * Freshwater Mussels
 * Fingernail Clams
 * Pill Bugs
 * Beetles (especially Tiger Beetles, Ground Beetles, Water Beetles, and Weevils)
 * European Honey Bees
 * Wasps
 * Ants
 * Centipedes
 * Millipedes
 * Boxelder Bug
 * Assassin Bugs
 * Some Cicadas
 * Grasshoppers
 * Katydids
 * Field Cricket