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===Major dust storms throughout the plains in southwestern parts of the United States reinforced the horrific reality of The Great Depression, which began shortly after the 1930s stock market crash and a widespread drought.===

__CAUSE OF THE EVENT__
===After the Great Depression began, farmers tried to produce more crops by tilling their land more then usual. They ended up working too much of the land, killing all of the prairie grass. The prairie grass wasn't able to replenish itself and without the grasses the soil had nothing to hold it together. Soon the wind picked up and started major dust storms. These dust storms were very strong and carried debris that spread across homesteads, damaging what little crops farmers had. The dust spread further and further, and farms had no chance of survival and people were becoming ill due to "dust pneunomia" because people were involuntarily inhaling dust. After farmers realized their mistake and felt the hard hitting effects of it, they made attempts to repair the land by planting deep rooting trees and replenishing the prairie grasses. The root systems were reestablished and the dust storms soon receded.===

__NEW LAWS AND POLICIES__
===Aside from replanting trees and grasses, the government felt that the United States needed to protect itself from this potentially reoccurring catastrophe. Soil and Conservation Act of 1935 was introduced thus creating the Soil and Conservation Service within the United States Department of Agriculture.===

===Sited Image works: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/ReleaseImages/20040318/01_theb1365.jpg http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/stratplan2003/final/graphics/images/SciStratFig4-3.jpg===

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