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Time, Water Running Out for America's Biggest Aquifer

(April 21) -- In 1823, a government surveyor named Stephen Long was working to map out the Great Plains, an expanse of land acquired along with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. He was unimpressed by what he saw. As his geographer wrote in the report that accompanied the expedition: I do not hesitate in giving the opinion...

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05/23/12 That Oklahoma City Thunder Is Rolling Across The Nation Source: Shawnee Sun - Tecumseh OK Weï¿½ve been thinking that about our big brother city but now the whole country is beginning to find out, too.
04/22/12 Let's Rename Earth Day Source: Climate Progress Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited.
04/21/12 Oregon Children's Theatre doesn't shy from Dust Bowl... Source: The Oregonian - Portland OR If you're going to kill some rabbits, the music has to be just right.

Background on Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent wind erosion.

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