Dust Bowl Research Paper

The Dust Bowl a tragic event that occurred during the 1930's primarily in the southern plains states. It hurt the lives of many people, and it was preventable. This event is relevant to what we are studying in class.

Wind and dust rage over your tiny farm house, out in the depths of Oklahoma. You are startled awake, to find piles of dust on the creaky wood floor. You hurry out of bed and prepare for a long day out in the Dust Bowl. The Dust bowls was a disaster that tore apart the United States. The uprooting of soil sent dust and dirt in every direction. Dust traveled through the wind, hundreds of miles over the dry and weak farmland. The Dust bowl was a terrible event that lead to migration to the west, destruction of farmland, devastation of the health of family and cattle, and the creation of the soil conservation service.

farming practices and thousands of acres of flat grassland being plowed, the soil no longer had

Did you know that some dust storms could be 10,000 feet high? These are the storms faced by the people in the Southern Plains. During the 1930s, America was hit by the Great Depression. Many Americans lost their jobs and were forced into poverty. The Southern Plains were considered to be hit the worst by the Depression. The plains were cornered by the Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl, especially, caused agricultural failures, economic failures, and destroyed the fertile lands of the plains. The Dust Bowl was caused by the overuse of soil, dreadful weather and temperature, and the lack of developed farming system.

Have you ever heard of the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl took place in the 1920s. The Dust Bowl took place in the Great Plains in the United States. The Great Plains are North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas.

1. The Dust Bowl received its name in April 35, 1935, the day after Black Sunday. Robert Geiger, a reporter wrote: “Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer’s tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent – if it rains.”(http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html). It was also one of the worst disasters for its time, from the sentence the Dust Bowl got its name.

The Dust Bowl negatively affected people in an economic way. The Dust Bowl made it extremely hard to grow and raise crops. The Dust Bowl majorly damaged homes and it farms. The dust covered many important and or valuable machines. Economic problems caused farmers and their families to go hungry and poor.

The Dust Bowl, as the majority of the people know it, was a period of time in the great plains, during the 1930’s, where some of the most severe sand storms known took place. The dust bowl lasted for about a decade and it affected New Mexico, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado. The Dust bowl lasted from 1931 to 1939. When the Drought hit the great plains, around one third of the farmers left. The dust storms caused many problems for many people, but especially the farmers that depended on the success of their crops to support their family.

In 1932 there were 14 dust storms and in 1933 that number rose to 48 dust storms. That shows how much the wind blew and how little water they got during that time. 1934 was the hottest year with a record of 29 days in a row that the temperature was above 100 degrees. During this time 80 percent of the country was bone dry meaning it didn’t rain for a long time.

The Dust Bowl was a time during the 1930’s when a drought and over-farmed land caused years of dust storms to ravage the American southwest.Loose topsoil was picked up by strong winds to form black storms of dust and dirt. Farmers had to board up their houses in preparation for when the growing black cloud on the horizon would come crashing down on their houses. Thousands of farmers couldn't pay their loans due to lost crops and banks foreclosed on their farms. This event coincided with the height of the Great Depression, strengthening the effects of both terrible phenomena.

The Dust Bowl or the “Dirty Thirties” was a series of dust storms caused by farmers moving in and plowing, which made at least six feet of topsoil in some areas. A major drought hit and the topsoil got picked up by wind and this caused a lot of static electricity which killed crops. It also caused sickness like dust pneumonia and made plagues of rabbits and locusts.

“The air is just full of dirt coming, literally, for hundreds of miles. It shifts into everything…”

The Dust Bowl (1931-1939) is the name given to parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado that suffered from extensive farming and natural drought. When homesteaders started farming and raising cattle on this land, these practices left the soil exposed to the danger of erosion by the strong winds that blow across the flat plain (Dust Bowl, n.d.). These winds, combined with a severe drought caused three to four inches of topsoil to blow away. This caused the federal and state governments to develop programs for soil conservation and rehabilitation (Dust Bowl, n.d.). In the past there was not a plan to prepare and recover from a drought. Now the National Incident Management System, or NIMS, provide guidelines to handle all

In the 1930’s a whole new nightmare had occured. The Great Depression into play losing all their money. During this economic crisis a lot of things happened, some even tried to solve these predicaments.

Quantitative information on the sources of sediment is key to developing effective erosion control measures to maximize sediment reduction. However, such information is extremely limited due to difficulties in direct measurement of sediment source contributions from various sources within a watershed (Zhang and Liu 2016). Generally, there are two ways in determining the source of sediment. One is to use traditional techniques such as erosion pins or unit source plots or small watersheds to estimate sediment provenance from a source type (e.g. gully, overland erosion source). These methods possibly meet some of these information requirements, but they have several limitations such as the representativeness of the obtained data, their spatial and temporal resolution, associated spatial patterns over extended areas, and costs as well. Moreover, traditional monitoring and modelling methods for soil erosion dynamics involved many parameters and long-term measurement. For example, to obtain long-term erosion data in agroecosystems, experimental plots must be carried out over decades to integrate the inter-annual variability of climate and cropping practices (Mabit et al. 1999).