The pine barrens community occurs on landforms that include outwash plains, glacial lakeplains, and broad sandy terraces that flank some of the major rivers in southern Wisconsin. Soils are almost always dry and sandy, of low nutrient status, and in topography that is often nearly level, but can be gently rolling. More @Wikipedia
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