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Soil conservation, Morton County, Kansas
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Date: November 17, 1938
This farmland is located one mile south of Wilburton in Morton County, Kansas. During the dust bowl, this land suffered severe erosion. In 1935 the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service today) planted sorghum as a cover crop. Sorghum produced very good ground cover by 1938. The photographer took a second picture on this day from this location, but from the opposite direction (Kansas Memory item 313528). In stark contrast, erosion has clearly devastated the untreated land just a few feet away.
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Soil erosion, Morton County, Kansas
Creator: McLean, B. C.
Date: November 17, 1938
This photograph shows farmland located one mile south of Wilburton in Morton County, Kansas. Due to soil erosion, it was abandoned during the Dust Bowl. The estimated soil loss during a raging dust storm was four feet. On the same day he photographed this scene, the photographer took a second picture from this location, but from the opposite direction (Kansas Memory item 313529). On that parcel of land, treatment by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, today known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service, drastically slowed the erosion process.
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