ISB 202 1nd Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I. Plate TectonicsOutline of Current Lecture II. The Dust BowlCurrent Lecture- The Dust Bowl is characterized by a decade that was full of extremes, such as blizzards, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and dirt storms.- 1930 and 1931 - the decade opened with prosperity and growth. BUSINESS magazine labeled the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas as the most prosperous region.- Wheat was a good thing. The world needed it and was paying a large price for it. Wheat farmers began plowing and planting wheat as never before. - Grasslands that should have never been plowed were plowed up. Millions of acres of farm land inthe Great Plains were broken. - Wheat was everywhere (in elevators, on the ground and in the road). The wheat supply forced the price down from .60 per bushel in July 1930 to .25 per bushel in July 1931, causing many farmers to go broke and others to abandon their fields.These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- Farmers, who still had a lot of pioneering spirit and faith in the land, weathered the storms. The old survival methods of pioneering were finally put into practice. - September 1930 - it rained over five inches in a very short time in the Oklahoma Panhandle. The flooding was accompanied by a dirt storm that damaged several buildings and farms. Later that year, the regions were hit again by a strong dirt storm until the winds gave way to a blizzard.- After the blizzards in winter 1930-1931, the drought began. The wheat was beaten by dirt from the abandoned fields. In March, there were twenty-two days of dirt storms and drifts began to build up. - In late January 1933 - the region was blasted by a magnificent dirt storm which killed much of the wheat. In early February, temperatures dropped seventy four degrees in eighteen hours to a record low. The weather stayed below freezing for several days until another dirt storm happened.- On Sunday April 14, 1935 - "Black Sunday". - 1938 - Year of the "snuster". The snuster was a mixture of dirt and snow reaching blizzard proportions. The storm caused a tremendous amount of damage and suffering. - The Dust Bowl taught farmers new farming methods and techniques. The 1930's fostered a wholenew era of soil conservation. The most valuable lesson learned from the Dust Bowl was to take care of the
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