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Dust Bowl
Title: Dust Bowl
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 421 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl is the common name applied to a large area in the southern part of the
Great Plains region of the United States, much of which suffered extensively from wind
erosion during the 1930s. The area included parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New
Mexico, and Colorado. In its original state, the region was covered with hardy grasses
that held the fine-grained soil in place in spite of the long recurrent droughts and
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…showed last 75 words of 421 total…large areas in grass, 3-year
planting rotation of wheat and sorghum and of lying fallow, the introduction of contour plowing,
terracing, and strip planting, and, in areas of greater rainfall, the planting of long "shelter belts" of
trees to break the force of the wind. Dry spells in the 1950s, '60s, and late '70s were responsible for
recurrences of dust storms in the region. Lets pray that a dustbowl never happens in these parts.
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