The word “dust bowl” conjures images of cracked earth, swirling clouds of dry soil, and a haunting silence where life once ...

The 1935 tragedy during a years-long drought compounded by a lack of soil conservation efforts "should be remembered as the ...

realized that the average American’s fate was closely tied to that of Dust Bowl farmers. One of these was Hugh Hammond Bennett, who would come to be known as “the father of soil conservation.” ...

By September there will be 161 soil erosion camps ... and workers are given a 25 percent raise. Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history ...

That project ultimately planted more than 200 million trees to help capture rains, hold the soil in place, and bring an end to the Dust Bowl era. Now, surviving trees from that project are nearly ...

On April 14, 1935, a wall of dust, hundreds of feet high, descended on farms and homes in the Great Plains. People drove as fast as they could to get away from the black clouds or covered their faces, ...

Ninety years this week, Oklahomans were met with a large wall of rolling black dust and sand, a day now known as "Black ...

The single worst day of the Dust Bowl was April 14, 1935, known as “Black Sunday.” These experiences led to the development of the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) in 1935 that evolved into ...

The Dust Bowl, from prolonged drought ... that ‘Strip Tilling’ is just one of the safeguards he uses to combat soil loss.

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s brought more than hard times ... In this 1935 photo, a cloud of top soil lumbers across the road near Boise City, Oklahoma. Astonishingly, the cloud of dust is so ...

The Dust Bowl storms of the 1930s quickly come to mind ... Vertical tillage lifts and loosens the top area of the soil.