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dust bowl

Area in the Great Plains region of North America (Texas to Kansas) that suffered extensive wind erosion as the result of drought and poor farming practice in once-fertile soil. Much of the topsoil was blown away in the droughts of the 1930s and the 1980s.

Similar dust bowls are being formed in many areas today, noticeably across Africa, because of overcropping and overgrazing.



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I remember the bitter Boston cold, getting my teeth kicked in by cops at government center, skating the Dustbowl and other secret spots that only a select few knew about in Pennsylvania, the parking garage midnight skates in Rockville center Long Island, the Copley Fountain in B-town--it goes on and on.
Fist first by B., Rick / Thrasher
But many former marsh dwellers have not returned, and much of the former Eden still remains a dustbowl.
Restoring Iraq's Eden by Luechtefeld, Lori / E
Baker was destined for the church but, while at college in Canada, saw dustbowls created through lack of trees and decided to devote his life to forestry.
A man of the trees by Mole, Graham / American Forests
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