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Old 21-July-2006, 04:34 PM
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Scientists Link Wind Shift, Medieval Mega-drought in Sandhills

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Today, Nebraska’s Sandhills, a region of gently rolling sand dunes blanketed with prairie grasses and wetlands that cover a quarter of the state, provide ideal habitat for wildlife and livestock. During medieval times 800 to 1,000 years ago, however, the region was a swirling desert, far worse than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
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fortunately we're living in a remarkably stable climate at this time so this remains simply an amusing tidbit of history.

yes. im aware i'm being ironic.
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That little tidbit has to make me wonder. A desert confined to 25% of one state, no matter how dry, is being compared to the dustbowl of the 1930's? Where damn near the entire midwest dried up and blew away? Talk about having a narrow focus. You'ld think historians would know history a little better than that.
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Well this was a natural occurance where as the 1930's dustbowl presumably wouldn't never have happened without the farming practices of the time, but instead merely would have been a dry period.
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Nebraska desert is was happened unexpectedly. It confined to 25% of one state, no matter how dry it.
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The desert was probably much larger. There are wide swaths of sand dunes throughout the Great Plains. Presumably, if Nebraska was dry enough to desertify, than so would parts of western and central Kansas.
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The late 1800's in the plains were exemplifying what John Wesley Powell called the "Arid Land".
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Nebraska desert is was happened unexpectedly. It confined to 25% of one state, no matter how dry it.
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Hi Stewart, and welcome to BAUT.

It is generally considered poor form to add a comment to a thread that is several years old, unless there is something new to add.
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