Erosion of the Land
... over-planted, and over-grazed the land. Then, during the Great Depression of the 1930s severe drought and plummeting agriculture prices combined to cause the Dust Bowl disaster. The federal government responded with a variety of programs that encouraged farmers to use soil conservation methods that ...
... over-planted, and over-grazed the land. Then, during the Great Depression of the 1930s severe drought and plummeting agriculture prices combined to cause the Dust Bowl disaster. The federal government responded with a variety of programs that encouraged farmers to use soil conservation methods that ...
Erosion – The movement of soil by wind or water to some new location
... - the invention of the plow greatly increased the amount of erosion by exposing large areas of farmland - early colonists would grow one crop (monoculture) in the same place every year until the nutrients were used up and then they would move on leaving exposed soil behind. - colonists moved west to ...
... - the invention of the plow greatly increased the amount of erosion by exposing large areas of farmland - early colonists would grow one crop (monoculture) in the same place every year until the nutrients were used up and then they would move on leaving exposed soil behind. - colonists moved west to ...
MIDWEST: STUDY GUIDE 1. The main difference between the
... 1. The main difference between the Central Plains and the Great Plains is that the Central Plains gets more precipitation. 2. Prairie soil is very fertile because the grasses leave behind matter that enriches the soil. 3. Half of the corn grown in the Central Plains is used for livestock food. 4. Th ...
... 1. The main difference between the Central Plains and the Great Plains is that the Central Plains gets more precipitation. 2. Prairie soil is very fertile because the grasses leave behind matter that enriches the soil. 3. Half of the corn grown in the Central Plains is used for livestock food. 4. Th ...
Mondays notes 9
... underground. New types of windmills were designed to pump water up to the surface. The steady winds on the Great Plains made wind mills a useful power source for farmers. 3. Barbed wire Farmers needed fences to keep animals away from their crops. In a region with little wood, however, Greta Plains F ...
... underground. New types of windmills were designed to pump water up to the surface. The steady winds on the Great Plains made wind mills a useful power source for farmers. 3. Barbed wire Farmers needed fences to keep animals away from their crops. In a region with little wood, however, Greta Plains F ...
The Dust Bowl
... The Dust Bowl area lies principally west of the 100th meridian on the High Plains, characterized by plains which vary from rolling in the north to flat in the Llano Estacado. Elevation ranges from 2,500 feet (760 m) in the east to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) at the base of the Rocky Mountains. The area is ...
... The Dust Bowl area lies principally west of the 100th meridian on the High Plains, characterized by plains which vary from rolling in the north to flat in the Llano Estacado. Elevation ranges from 2,500 feet (760 m) in the east to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) at the base of the Rocky Mountains. The area is ...
The dust bowl A series of dust storms in the central United States
... The fertile soil of the Great Plains was exposed through removal of grass during plowing. During the drought, the soil dried out, became dust, and blew away. ...
... The fertile soil of the Great Plains was exposed through removal of grass during plowing. During the drought, the soil dried out, became dust, and blew away. ...
The Dust Bowl: action and reaction between
... which were often consigned to financial investments and bank deposits that disappeared over night. The combination of both phenomena resulted in a mass exodus from the central states. More than three million people abandoned their farms and headed to cities, where the situation was not much better a ...
... which were often consigned to financial investments and bank deposits that disappeared over night. The combination of both phenomena resulted in a mass exodus from the central states. More than three million people abandoned their farms and headed to cities, where the situation was not much better a ...
Wind erosion is a serious problem in many parts of the world
... destruction of disastrous proportions. The "black blizzards" of the resulting Dust Bowl inflicted great hardships on the people and the land. The Dust Bowl has been called our nations worst ecological disaster. It was an area in the southern Great Plains during the 1930's, where prolonged drought an ...
... destruction of disastrous proportions. The "black blizzards" of the resulting Dust Bowl inflicted great hardships on the people and the land. The Dust Bowl has been called our nations worst ecological disaster. It was an area in the southern Great Plains during the 1930's, where prolonged drought an ...
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–40, but some regions of the high plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years. With insufficient understanding of the ecology of the plains, farmers had conducted extensive deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains during the previous decade; this had displaced the native, deep-rooted grasses that normally trapped soil and moisture even during periods of drought and high winds. The rapid mechanization of farm equipment, especially small gasoline tractors, and widespread use of the combine harvester contributed to farmers' decisions to convert arid grassland (much of which received no more than 10 inches (250 mm) of precipitation per year) to cultivated cropland.During the drought of the 1930s, the unanchored soil turned to dust, which the prevailing winds blew away in huge clouds that sometimes blackened the sky. These choking billows of dust – named ""black blizzards"" or ""black rollers"" – traveled cross country, reaching as far as such East Coast cities as New York City and Washington, D.C. On the Plains, they often reduced visibility to 1 metre (3.3 ft) or less. Associated Press reporter Robert E. Geiger happened to be in Boise City, Oklahoma, to witness the ""Black Sunday"" black blizzards of April 14, 1935; Edward Stanley, Kansas City news editor of the Associated Press coined the term ""Dust Bowl"" while rewriting Geiger's news story. While the term ""the Dust Bowl"" was originally a reference to the geographical area affected by the dust, today it is usually used to refer to the event, as in ""It was during the Dust Bowl"". The meaning of the term ""bowl"" – a hollow container – in this context is however still not quite clear.The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km2) that centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and touched adjacent sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their farms. Many of these families, who were often known as ""Okies"" because so many of them came from Oklahoma, migrated to California and other states to find that the Great Depression had rendered economic conditions there little better than those they had left. Author John Steinbeck, wrote Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Grapes of Wrath (1939) about migrant workers and farm families displaced by the Dust Bowl. Babb's own novel about the lives of the migrant workers, Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), was eclipsed and shelved in response to the success of Steinbeck's works, and was finally published in 2004.