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  2. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    The Dust Bowl (Wessels Living History Farm) Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture – Dust Bowl; Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry: Oklahoma Women in the Dust Bowl Oral History Project, Oklahoma Oral History Research Program; Voices of Oklahoma interview with Frosty Troy.

  3. 1934–35 North American drought - Wikipedia

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    Excessive heat and drought problems affected the United States in 1934–35 from the Rocky Mountains, Texas and Oklahoma to parts of the Midwestern, Great Lakes, and Mid-Atlantic states. These droughts and excessive heat spells were parts of the Dust Bowl and concurrent with the Great Depression in the United States.

  4. 1988–1990 North American drought - Wikipedia

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    The drought caused $60 billion in damage ($155 billion 2024 USD) in United States dollars, adjusting for inflation. The drought occasioned some of the worst blowing-dust events since 1977 or the 1930s in many locations in the Midwestern United States, including a protracted dust storm, which closed schools in South Dakota in late February 1988 ...

  5. Black Sunday (storm) - Wikipedia

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    Black Sunday is a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl in the United States. [1] It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and caused immense economic and agricultural damage. [2] It is estimated that 300 thousand tons of topsoil were displaced from the prairie area. [3]

  6. 1936 North American heat wave - Wikipedia

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    Droughts and heat waves were common in the 1930s. The 1930s (the Dust Bowl years) are remembered as the driest and warmest decade for the United States, and the summer of 1936 featured the most widespread and destructive heat wave to occur in the Americas in centuries.

  7. Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936

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    The Act also gave directives to conserve the soil in the "high plains"—soil that was being raised into huge dust bowls during the 1930s. This period, known as the Dust Bowl, coupled with the economic hardships of the Great Depression, hit farmers particularly hard. The act attempted to correct earlier government policy that encouraged farmers ...

  8. Drier than the Dust Bowl: Iowa, facing more drought, preps ...

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    As wells dry up, aquifer levels drop and water demand grows, how much drought can Iowa withstand? 'We don’t have unlimited water,' state geologist says.

  9. Great Plains Shelterbelt - Wikipedia

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    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.