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    of the Famers During the Dust Bowl “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people”, stated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (1) Have you ever heard of the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl took place in the 1930s. In the Great Plains of the United States. It covered parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. The blowing dust caused hardships for many

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    in the Dust Bowl You’re a kid living in the Dust Bowl. “Cough-cough.” You try to force down. Moving your plow back and forth you try to look over the barren wasteland you call home. Wind roaring in your eyes as you see a brown funnel full a dirt and dust less than a mile away. Driving for cover your world fads black. The Dust Bowl was made by a drought and high winds. The drought killed the prairie grass keeping the soil down and the high winds picked it up to make dust storms. The Dust Bowl was harmful

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    The Dust Bowl also known as the Dirty Thirties one of the most famous dust storms to happen. This storm would occur in southeastern Colorado, southwest Kansas and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas and would take place in 1931 and would end in 1939. The Dust Bowl would be able to cause a big drought and the crops wouldn't be able to grow because the Dust Bowl take those nutrients away from the crops. There wasn't much rain happening either. This wasn't a natural disaster either this terrible storm

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    The dust bowl was an environmental disaster that hit the midwest in the 1930s. It was mostly a combination of a severe water shortage and harsh farming techniques that created it. The lach rain killed the crps that kept the soil in place. When the wind blew it made huge clouds of dust. Part of the reason the dust bowl happened was because weather patterns it the Atlantic and Pacific ocean shifted. The Pacific got coulder and the Atlantic got warmer and that changed the direction of the jet stream

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    The Dust Bowl, it was the largest man-made ecological disaster in the 1930s. Although some people might argue that human have very little to do with it, or the whole event was nothing but the result of climate change, there are many factors to prove that human activities such as, overgrazing, heavy agricultural machinery, overly expended the grass land for farming, and habitat destruction were the key factors that led to the Dust Bowl. When watching the documentary about the Dust Bowl, one can see

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    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

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    The Dust Bowl was known as the Dirty Thirties, it was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe droughts and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused by the phenomenon. The drought and erosion the Dust Bowl affected was 100,000,000 acres. The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their house and their farms. The panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma touched

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    Can the Dust Bowl occur again in the 21st century? First of all, what is the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl is an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move (columbia.edu). This is caused by increase in temperature, overproduction of crops, and droughts created this “Dust Bowl”. When this mixture happened, wind kicked up all of the depleted soil on farmland and it kicked up the dry dirt and made

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    1.) The documentary, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster paints a surreal mosaic of life on the Great Plains during the dirty thirties. He does this by illustrating various causations and correlations as well as specific rural towns in the Dust Bowl that exhibit them, and public institutions whose objective was the restoration of the Great Plains to a fertile state as before the coming of the Capitalistic agriculturist that wreaked havoc on the ecosystem. Worster then uses

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    a house constantly filled with dust in every crease and crevice. It would be a horrible place to live your everyday life. The Dust Bowl occurred in the 1930’s. It was a span of dust storms that lasted for around eight years. It was known as the “Dirty Thirties”. The dust bowl left an effect on everybody. There were many causes of the Dust Bowl and everyone, including the farmers, had their own ways to deal with it. For people to understand more about the dust bowl they need to know what caused the

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