The National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) was established in 1933 in response to a catastrophic event in the Southern Great Plains region know as the “Dust Bowl” or “Dirty Thirties”. In 1869‚ the railroad made its way to the Great Plains and became home to the many early settlers who took advantage of the “free soil” or land tracts offered by the government via the Homestead Act; a bill enacted in hopes to curb slave labor and increase the number of individual farmers who owned and operated
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Dust Bowl: Donald Worster The 1930s are a decade marked by devastation; the nation was in an economic crisis‚ millions of people were going hungry‚ and jobless. America was going through some dark times. But if you were living in Texas‚ Oklahoma‚ Kansas (or any of those surrounding states) you had bigger things on your mind than being denied the money in your bank account. From 1935-1939 Winds and dust storms had left a good portion of our country desolate; however our author takes a slightly
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The dust has made its home with us for seven years. I know this because for every year that the dust has blown‚ crushed‚ and swept through our Valley I’ve given birth. Times have been more than ruthless to my family. James‚ my husband‚ has yet to grow enough crops to satisfy the hunger of the banks. My children have not had new clothes in four years and my youngest‚ Keladry‚ has now developed a dry cough. Luke‚ my brother‚ and his family left the Valley to seek out a job and money. He sent a letter
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Climate was the biggest reason leading The Dust Bowl occurred‚ the climate of The Great Plain’s region consists of an average of less than 20 inches of precipitation per year and winds normally reach the speed of 60 miles per hour. Scientists believed that the drought that caused the Dust Bowl Era between 1930 and 1937 occurred because of a La Niña event in the Pacific Ocean. Where cool ocean surface temperatures reduced the amount of moisture entering the jet stream and directed it south to the
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The Cause of the Dust Bowl and the Effect on Agriculture In the early 1930s‚ a severe drought struck the region‚ drying the upper layers of already extremely loose topsoil. Heavy windstorms declined‚ carrying the dust in thick black clouds. These black clouds were so dark that livestock were sometimes fooled into thinking that night had come. The dust collected in huge drifts‚ sometimes covering homes and farms‚ and once productive farmland became dry. Citizens of the affected regions started
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the flow of liquid heads toward low elevation areas (Belnap‚ Field‚ Munson 2). Although higher elevations are few and far in-between leveling the land at a higher ground at one end would have drained water into more starved crops during and after the dust storms occurred and possibly managing to support vegetation for a longer period during one of the worst man-made environmental disasters ever recorded. Data has also shown that over the Atlantic Ocean the temperature was much warmer than usual for
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“Dust Bowl Refugee” is a song written by Woody Guthrie concerning the struggles of migrants‚ particularly those trying to escape the economic and ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl this is certainly an appropriate song for discussing class and social identity of a Southern community effected by migration‚ because although Southern identity is not directly referenced in the song‚ many Southerners experienced the kinds of things to which this song refers. It affected the entire nation and created
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cards (control group). Your independent and experimental variable will be the note cards‚ the dependent variable will be the grade you get on the test. Immediately‚ you see the problems. What if one test is a math test (hard) and the other is a health test (nobrainer)? What if you have time to study for one test and don‟t have the time to study for the other test? What if you are feeling great the day you take one test and feel lousy the day you take the next test? All of these differences are
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13 going on 14‚ I am from the Great Plains and I’ve been a victim of what they call the “Dust Bowl”. I’ve been trapped in my house for 100 hours due to these wild winds. The wind blows so hard sometimes I think my house is going to blow straight off the ground. Once the winds stop me and Paw walked out to see our fields blown over in dust; I can still see the dazed look on my father’s face when the first dust storm hit. I remember hearing my neighbor say to my father that looking out on the dusted
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The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl is the name given to the awful dust storms which caused major damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s. The Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday‚ April 14‚ 1935. There were lots of dust storms leading up to that day. In 1932‚ 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains. In 1933‚ there were 38 storms. By 1934‚ it was estimated that 100 million acres of farmland had lost all or most of the topsoil to the winds. By April 1935‚ there had been weeks
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