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Seeing Soil From the Sky A Look at Erosion and Conservation
In a wartime air tour from Kansas City to Abilene editor Edward Emerine notes erosion patterns and soil conservation efforts across farms from Nebraska to Colorado. He recalls pilots surveying land from above, early soil battles of the Dust Bowl era, and the need for windbreaks and terrace farming, urging broader public care for topsoil.
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P&ds
Arthur V. Burrowes
News-Press
St. Joseph
Air Transport Command
Abilene
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Burrowes
Missouri
Kansas
Art Burrowes
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
America
Everglades
Florida
New England
Virginia
Oklahoma
Alabama
Georgia
Calhan
Colo
Robert G. Simmons
Supreme Court of Nebraska
Congress
Nebraska
Bob Simmons
Rio Grande
Halsey National Forest
Halsey
Neb
United States
Hampton
Livingston County
Kentucky
Ira
Louis Bromfield
Sahara
Gobi
Chicagos
New Yorks
Ford
General Motors