This High Plains Tablelands is bounded on its southeast by the forested Pine Ridge escarpment. To the south is a farming region where wheat is the main crop, along with oats, corn, and fodder crop. At the lower right corner is the northwest end of the Sand Hills of Nebraska whose dune fields are discernible. It is surprising to some, especially after flying over the Interior and Great Plains, that the region from a broader perspective is not flat but often displays rolling terrain and distinct valleys. Thermal Infrared view of nearly all of northern Kansas, most of Nebraska, and the southwest corner of Iowa.
Rivers control the major drainage.
The next scene is not in the Great Plains but is topographically and ecologically similar to parts of the southern Great Plains in Texas. Almost he entire Texas coastline is one continuous string of barrier islands, with lagoons and the Intracoastal Waterway to its landward. A vast amount of the land south of Corpus Christi was once a huge cattle grazing endeavor, the famed King Ranch, which still exists but has shrunk by sale of some of its holdings.