Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s

摘要: In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells story Dust Bowl ecological as well human terms. Now, twenty-five after his book helped to define new field history, Worster shares more recent thoughts on subject land how humans interact with it. a afterword, he links current political, economic issues-including American livestock industry's exploitation Plains, on-going problem desertification, which has now become global phenomenon. He reflects state plains today threat dustbowl. outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison elk would once roam freely, suggests we may yet witness native flora fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers raise food modeled natural prairies existed.