Desertification

In what once known as one of the most fertile areas of the United States, one of the Country’s most destructive agricultural disasters took place. Due to droughts and no rain, crops did not grow, leaving the soil exposed to the high winds that hit the area in the 1930s. Extending over a 150,000 square mile land and including parts of five states, Texas, Oklahoma, western Kansas, the eastern Colorado and New Mexico, the Dust Bowl was a period where more than 100 million acres of land of terrains…

In the 1930s, America went from a prospering world power to a struggling nation in need of assistance. After the start if the Great Depression in 1929, America’s financial situation was suffering; unemployment rates reached as high as twenty five percent during the depression and millions of families lost their incomes, while thousands of small businesses closed their doors. Therefore, wWhen an envionmental crisis known as the Dust Bowl began in the 1930s, those living in farms were not keen on…

The dust bowl was one of the harshest and most destructive man made “natural” disasters in its time period.The Dust Bowl negatively affected people who lived there in a personal way. The lives of people were at stake during. When people could not handle the weather or had their homes taken from them, they moved westward to California. Not only were the people of this area struggling, so was the economy. Farming was the cause of the dust bowl but nobody knew that at first. People began calling…

The Dust Bowl was a drought that strickened the Southern PLains region of the united states.They suffered from severe dust storms that had severe high winds. The choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska. Many people were killed from this tragic disaster. The Dust Bowl also killed the livestock and it had also failed crops across the entire region. This disaster drove many families on a desperate migration for search of work and better living conditions. Roughly 7,000 people died due…

outdated method of irrigation where gallons of water are pumped over the crops. Desertification is a land degradation problem of major importance in the arid regions of the world. Deterioration in soil and plant cover have adversely affected nearly 50 percent of the land areas as the result of human mismanagement of cultivated and range lands. Overgrazing and woodcutting are responsible for most of the desertification of rangelands, cultivation practices inducing accelerated water and wind…

In today’s time, our world’s knowledge of agriculture has decreased in the last hundred years, but even more in agricultural activity. In 1860, seventy-five percent of the United States was involved somehow in agricultural production, now that percentage is less and two percent. As our nation continues to increase in population so does the need for agricultural products and land. With land being used more for settlement and buildings than for farming, being able to provide enough food for our…

During the years 1920 to 1939 life on the prairies had been very tough and difficult to live in due to the extremely tough economic times and climatic impact around the area. The most dominant factors of the cause are, the drastic climate change, the grass hopper plague and prices of products falling significantly low. In 1931, humongous Dust storms began. The dust-storm left every crop field empty and destroyed. As stated in the text “the wind would polish your hand if you left it out long…

The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world. According to geography. about.com, the desert covers over 3,500,000 square miles. That is about 10% of the African continent. Today the Sahara Desert is one of the driest and hottest places in the world. The average temperature is 86 degrees Fahrenheit and the temperature can rise up to 126 degrees Fahrenheit. The video “Bones of the Sahara” by PBS. The video is about a Paleontologist who discovers human bones in the Sahara Desert and he…

n the 1930s, in the Great Plains region, people were dying due to excessive dust inhalation, this is known as Dust Pneumonia. Farmers were not making the best decisions and it was a decade full of droughts. All of this lead to the start of the Dust Bowl and a miserable decade for the Great Plains area. The Dust Bowl negatively affected people during the drought and dust storms by causing a major loss in money and sending people cross-country for work; therefore, entities including the government…

The Grand Slam of Soil Conservation Just imagine, you’re in a softball game, you have just rounded third base and are trying to beat the ball home. In a desperate effort to score; you slide, and dust flies- making it momentarily impossible to see. Your eyes, nose, and mouth are covered in the freshly raked earth of the ball field. This scenario is something that most of us today can relate to. But in the early 1900s, in several counties across Oklahoma and throughout the Great Plains, many days…