Great Plains Winds Doing Less Damage / FarmsceneWASHINGTON (AP) - Wind damage to land in the Great Plains is down sharply from a year ago, according to surveys by the Agriculture Department.U.S. NewspapersTHE JOURNAL RECORD
During most time of the 1930s, the Great Plains region was destroyed by drought and high winds. Howling across the Great Plains, these winds swept up the soil of the over-farmed land and created severe sandstorm of dust. These black sandstorms were so thick and blinding that daylight seemed...
USA. Playas are biodiversity hotspots and are a primary source of recharge to the High Plains Aquifer. There are two hypotheses that explain for the formation of playas, the wind erosion hypothesis and the water
WESTWARD EXPANSION Few of the freed slaves could afford to own land & most worked as sharecroppers, work not very different from what they did as slaves. Thousands of black families took advantage of the opportunity to become homesteaders on the Plains. IMPACT ON AMERICAN INDIANS American Indian...
In the Great Plains and elsewhere, unchecked winds damage agricultural fields, orchards and gardens, feedlots, wildlife habitat, and other valuable lands. In the United States, tree planting to mitigate such damage has been encouraged by law since 1873, and extensive research in the U.S. and ...
the shear exponent to be significantly higher than what the industry currently assumes.The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model simulates the low-level wind speed over a majority of the Great Plains in a manner that could be used to estimate the shear exponent over the Great Plains. ...
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) supply a substantial portion of warm-season rainfall to the Great Plains of North America, and they are responsible for severe weather and flooding across the central United States. However, little is known about past
Hull may be a harbinger of a drier future on the northern Plains. The town is one of many in the area whose groundwater has been contaminated by farm chemicals. Hull is one of 15 towns and five rural water systems, including South Dakota's biggest city, Sioux Falls, that have hitched ...
2020). In the northern and central regions of the Great Plains, shrub invasion has largely been driven by a combination of shelter belt planting (e.g., trees and shrubs planted to block wind and provide livestock shelter) and widespread disruption of fire and grazing disturbances that once ...
November 2022: Westwind Energy announces it had reached financial close on a 4000GWH wind farm in the shire of Golden Plains, which is less than 100 kms north west of Melbourne. The sole equity investor is French renewable player TagEnergy, which is associated with wealthy French entrepreneur ...