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Natural Disasters blog
Farmers Saved the Soil After the Dust Bowl, Long Before Earth Day Existed After Black Sunday in 1935, farmers and local conservation districts rebuilt the soil from the ground up. It is a model of stewardship that predates Earth Day. After the 1953 Flood the Dutch Built Their Way to Safety, a Lesson in Adaptation The Dutch answered the deadly 1953 flood with the Delta Works, and the story shows that wealth and engineering protect people from weather better than anything. The Spotted Owl Listing Emptied Timber Towns and Still Did Not Save the Owl A 1990 listing and a 1994 forest plan idled the mills of the Northwest, yet the owl kept declining, and the unthinned forests now feed the fires. Cattle Eat Grass, Grass Feeds Fires, and That Makes Grazing a Wildfire Policy Well-managed grazing removes the fine fuels that carry range fires, so cutting it on public land can worsen Western wildfires. Here is the case and its limits.