ANTH 266 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Dust Bowl, Environmental Migrant, Atmospheric Sciences
19 Mar 2019
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During the great depression, the great plains experienced the worst drought in history. Led to soil erosion, dust storms, farm abandonments, personal hardships, and distress migration. Known as the dirty thirties or dust bowl years . There has been considerable growth in scholarship on the subject in recent years. Interest in causes of droughts and return frequency. New research on the human dimensions of climate change. Current knowledge of the physical causes and human impacts of the dust bowl era droughts is incomplete. Dust storms and soil erosion were common and severe across colorado, kansas, Exact boundaries of the dust bowl are subjective. Similar conditions prevailed along the great plains that were not associated with the dust bowl. Dominated by short and mixed-grass prairie vegetation prior to european settlement. Between the civil war and 1930s, 30% of land was converted to cropland. Government encouraged family operated farms through homesteading.
