Dust Bowl

A Little Dirty History

January 20, 2015
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog
Conquest of the Land Through 7000 Years, David Montgomery, Dirt: Erosion of Civilizatons, Dust Bowl, George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature, soil erosion, UN International Year of Soils, Walter Lowdermilk

The United Nations-Food and Agriculture Organization has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils. That’s fitting, given how reliant the entire world is on keeping our soil in place, as well as…
Dust-to-Dust: Don’t Blame the Drought

November 30, 2012
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog, rural
Dirty Thirties, Dust Bowl, Ken Burns, Land Stewardship Project, monocropping, soil and water conservation districts, soil erosion, soil healthy, The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan

I recently phoned members of my geographically far-flung family to give them Thanksgiving greetings and was struck by a common element of our ensuing conversations. From Iowa and Nebraska to Kentucky and…
USDA Secretary: You Can Make Conservation History

April 4, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
2012 Farm Bill, agriculture policy, Conservation Stewardship Program, Dust Bowl, Farm Bill, Great Depression, Mark Schultz, Soil Conservation Service, soil erosion, USDA, Vilsack

An April 1 letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack from LSP Associate Director Mark Schultz: Congress and the Obama Administration are currently evaluating measures aimed at reducing federal spending for the present…

Dust Bowl

A Little Dirty History

Dust-to-Dust: Don’t Blame the Drought

USDA Secretary: You Can Make Conservation History