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The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought ) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion , most ...
The Great Plains Shelterbelt was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States, that began in 1934. [1] President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated the project in response to the severe dust storms of the Dust Bowl, which resulted in significant soil erosion.
Several were collected in his first album Dust Bowl Ballads. One of them, Great Dust Storm, describes the events of Black Sunday. An excerpt of the lyrics follows: On the 14th day of April of 1935, There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky. You could see that dust storm comin', the cloud looked deathlike black,
"Four extensive droughts developed in the Great Plains area between 1930 and 1940, causing widespread dust storms, agricultural failure, poverty, unemployment and devastation to the nation's economy."
Dorothea Lange’s stark and surreal black and white photography of Depression-era life, eyewitness accounts from those who survived the Dust Bowl, and apocalyptic footage of looming dust clouds ...
Born in Oildale, Calif., in 1937, he was the son of Dust Bowl refugees from Oklahoma and spent his early years living in a house that his father, James Haggard, had fashioned from an abandoned ...
The Buffaloes are off in Week 10 before closing the season with four games that look a heck of a lot more winnable than they did to start the year as the Buffs’ opponents are a combined 5-15 in ...
There were also dust storms in 1934 and 1935 in the southern Great Plains, the Midwest, Great Lakes States and even the East Coast of the U.S. [3] Many studies indicate that the drought spells might have been caused when tractors and farm machinery were introduced the previous decade. [2]