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27 paź 2009 · Learn about the Dust Bowl, the drought-stricken region of the U.S. that suffered severe dust storms in the 1930s. Find out how federal land policies, weather changes, farm economics and cultural factors contributed to the environmental disaster and its impacts.
27 lip 2023 · Learn about the ecological and economic disaster that devastated the southern plains in the 1930s, caused by drought, wind erosion, and great dust storms. Find out how the Dust Bowl affected Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado, and how it was addressed by federal and state agencies.
The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
Dust Bowl – okres (lata 1931–1938), w którym dziewiętnaście stanów na obszarze Wielkich Równin w Stanach Zjednoczonych zostało dotkniętych katastrofą ekologiczną, będącą skutkiem suszy i silnej erozji gleb. Została ona spowodowana wieloletnią suszą i intensywną eksploatacją rolniczą gruntów.
THE DUST BOWL by Ken Burns chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
In a region accustomed to weather extremes and spring “dusters,” the Dust Bowl—eight years of severe drought that blistered the Great Plains with blinding dust storms and agricultural losses—stands out for its exceptional hardship and lasting legacy.
In some places, the dust drifted like snow, covering farm buildings and houses. Nineteen states in the heartland of the United States became a vast dust bowl. With no chance of making a living, farm families abandoned their homes and land, fleeing westward to become migrant laborers.
