The Laramie Basin - Mountains and Plains: The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes - page 290

Fig. 17.7. Land cover in the Wyoming portion of the Laramie
Basin. Grasslands occupy about 66 percent of the basin floor,
with shrublands dominated by big sagebrush and greasewood
occurring on about 10 and 5 percent of the land, respec-
tively. About 9 percent of the basin is in riparian woodlands,
shrublands, and meadows; about 3 percent of the land is in
cropland agriculture, half of which is irrigated. Some cover
types listed in the legend are not easily distinguished at the

scale of this map, including foothill shrublands on the lower
slopes of the mountains, small patches of irrigated land, and
the different kinds of riparian vegetation. the thicker dashed
lines show the location of two transects used for the profiles
of geological surface types and vegetation types, which are
shown in figs. 17.15 and 17.16. cartography by Ramesh Sivan-
pillai, University of Wyoming.