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Dust Bowl

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The Dust Bowl begins. Loosened by rampant agricultural development after 1900, millions of acres of topsoil blow into huge dust storms, devastating agricultural communities across Colorado and the Great Plains.

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Dust Bowl

During crises such as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Colorado Agricultural Extension helped Colorado farmers by overseeing the local implementation of federal relief programs.
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