The Dust Bowl was caused by the hands of man and the hands of nature and has resulted in many longer term effects. Because of the Plains states’ successfully wheat business and harvest, thousands and thousands of farmers traveled to the area. However, this influx of farmers led to overgrazing and overplowing of the southern plains. Many of the farmers used a farming technique called dry land farming and destroyed the large areas of grassland. This, coupled with an incredible drought and Great Depression of the 1930s, led to the wheat being replaced by dried prairie grass that made the land unable to overcome the harsh winds and ultimately led to not only the wheat market collapsing, but also one of America’s greatest environmental and economical
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Roosevelt’s New Deal, the clean up process for America’s Dust Bowl would not have been possible. In the hopes of reforming farming practices, Roosevelt and Congress passed the Soil Conservation Act of 1935 to better outline the farming techniques to prevent a recurrence of the Dust Bowl. Roosevelt also ordered the Civilian Conservation Corps to plant a large belt of over 200 million trees from Canada to Abilene, Texas as a way to break the wind and keep the soil and water in the soil in its place. Not only this, but the Roosevelt administration made an effort to better educate farmers on soil conservation and technique to decrease erosion such as crop rotation, strip farming, contour plowing, and terracing. A few years laters, the federal government began to further push individuals in the area to adopt planting and plowing methods to conserve soil and even paid farmers a dollar an acre to use such new methods. Even though it took many years to see progress, by 1938, the federal government’s conservation effort reduced the soil blown by 65 percent and by 1939, blue skies and rains finally …show more content…
For example, in 1933, Congress created the Soil Conservation Service as a way to administer to erosion control and gave financial incentives to farmers. Additionally as previously described, the federal government passed the Soil Conservation Act to plant more trees and grasses to conserve the amount of soil being lost in the wind. Another governmental implementation to assist the Dust Bowl was made through the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act that gave of $200 million dollars to help refinance mortgages of farmers under foreclosure. Other acts included the Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act that restricted the ability of banks to get rid of farmers in times of distress, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act that gave $525 million to drought relief, and the establishment of the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation that provided food and local relief channels to those in
Roosevelt’s New Deal, the clean up process for America’s Dust Bowl would not have been possible. In the hopes of reforming farming practices, Roosevelt and Congress passed the Soil Conservation Act of 1935 to better outline the farming techniques to prevent a recurrence of the Dust Bowl. Roosevelt also ordered the Civilian Conservation Corps to plant a large belt of over 200 million trees from Canada to Abilene, Texas as a way to break the wind and keep the soil and water in the soil in its place. Not only this, but the Roosevelt administration made an effort to better educate farmers on soil conservation and technique to decrease erosion such as crop rotation, strip farming, contour plowing, and terracing. A few years laters, the federal government began to further push individuals in the area to adopt planting and plowing methods to conserve soil and even paid farmers a dollar an acre to use such new methods. Even though it took many years to see progress, by 1938, the federal government’s conservation effort reduced the soil blown by 65 percent and by 1939, blue skies and rains finally …show more content…
For example, in 1933, Congress created the Soil Conservation Service as a way to administer to erosion control and gave financial incentives to farmers. Additionally as previously described, the federal government passed the Soil Conservation Act to plant more trees and grasses to conserve the amount of soil being lost in the wind. Another governmental implementation to assist the Dust Bowl was made through the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act that gave of $200 million dollars to help refinance mortgages of farmers under foreclosure. Other acts included the Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act that restricted the ability of banks to get rid of farmers in times of distress, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act that gave $525 million to drought relief, and the establishment of the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation that provided food and local relief channels to those in