During the 1930s, after an intensive period of over-farming, dust storms regularly wreaked havoc, blanketing towns and farms in grit, destroying crops and making people sick. The drought and ...

The tragedy of the infamous Dust Bowl era of 1930s was repeated on I-55 in the heart of the U.S. Corn Belt. Dust storms are major problems in the Great Plains and Southwest where annual rainfall ...

throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of ...

The dust has settled in Tulare County after a wind storm swept through Monday afternoon. At Porterville High School, crews ...

Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennett (left) first Chief of the Soil Conservation Service and Mr. Roach Stewart (Duke Power Co.) In the early years of the 1930s ... the drought and dust storms was little ...