Posted by John in La on October 03, 2019 at 09:09:13 from (24.158.216.181):
A depression discussion at work included the dust bowl and got me thinking about the FACTS. So I will tell you what I have heard/ read/ seen on tv/ learned in school; and you correct me where I am wrong. You can also add anything I missed.
While the dust bowl is made out to be the entire U.S. and Canada plains the hardest and longest hit area was around the Oklahoma panhandle. This would include SW Kansas; SE Colorado; NE New Mexico; and northern part of the Texas panhandle.
At first the land was opened to homesteading. It was during the wet years so farmers had large crops. Because of this they plowed up more and more acres of prairie grass. Some homesteaders even thought the depression may not hit their local area because of the large harvest.
Then the rain stopped. Since farmers had given up moldboard plowing for easier methods of plowing they made the situation worse. Even though there was no rain to speak of they plowed and planted a crop thinking this year would be better. This went on for close to 10 years.
They tried several ways to prevent the dust. Even planted trees threw a government works project. Most likely a waste of time because the area does not get enough rain for trees to grow long term.
Near the end they went back to moldboard plowing and contouring the land. I do not know if this was even proved successful because the rain started again.
Today we prevent another dust bowl with wells and irrigation. This will last as long as the wells do not run dry. But if and when they do look out because we could have another dust bowl era.
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