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began plowing and planting wheat as never before. The lands were planted to wheat year after year without a thought as to the damage that was being done. Grasslands that should have never been plowed were plowed up. Millions of acres of farm land in the great plains were broken. -
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the dust bowl was a sad time because the crops were dieing, the houses were nearly burried and the animals they relied on were dieing of starvation. -
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The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act allots $200,000,000 for refinancing mortgages to help farmers facing foreclosure. the destruction was like an apocolipse. -
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The Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp in Clayton County, Alabama. -
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The Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp in Clayton County. the peopel were scared because they were losing their homes because of the ferocios dust storms. -
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In California’s San Joaquin Valley, where many farmers fleeing the plains have gone seeking migrant farm work. -
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Roosevelt signs the Taylor Grazing Act, which alowwed him to take a whole lot of land peoples homes even. -
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In 1934 to 1936, three record drought years were marked for the nation. In 1936, a more severe storm spread out of the plains and across most of the nation. The drought years were accompanied with record breaking heavy rains, blizzards, tornadoes and floods. In September 1930, it rained over five inches in a very short time in the Oklahoma Panhandle. -
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The federal government forms a Drought Relief Service to coordinate relief activities. The DRS buys cattle in counties that are designated emergency areas, for $14 to $20 a head. Those unfit for human consumption – more than 50 percent at the beginning of the program – are destroyed. -
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The 1930's fostered a whole new era of soil conservation. Perhaps the most valuable lesson learned form the Dust Bowl - take care of the land. The Dust Bowl's future is controlled almost exclusively by the weather. -
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Congress declares soil erosion “a national menace” in an act establishing the Soil Conservation Service in the Department of Agriculture (formerly the Soil Erosion Service in the U.S. the dust bowl was a sad and desperate time. -
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At a meeting in Pueblo, Colorado, experts estimate that 850,000,000 tons of topsoil has blown off the Southern Plains during the course of the year, this lasted as long as a decade -
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Los Angeles Police Chief James E. Davis sends 125 policemen to watch the borders of Arizona and Oregon to keep “unwanted people” out. As a result, the American Civil Liberties Union sues the city it was very confusing year.