Wind & Water Erosion Pictures, 1935-1975

A collection of photographs taken from USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Services. Please credit those photographs with the proper credits.

Date: 3/4/1972
Photographer: Eniz E. Rowland
Location: Whitman County, 6 miles East of Pullman, Washington
Watershed: South Palouse SWCD-25
This Picture Shows: Severe silt & water runoff from finely pulverized idle land. Land needs to be cropped each year in this area of 20 inches+ annual precipitation to remove soil moisture prior to heavy winter precipitation season.

Date: unknown
Photographer: NRCS employee
Location: Michigan
Watershed: unknown
This Picture Shows: Wind erosion. Wind Action in cultivated field during 35 miles per hour wind.
 

Date: 5/11/1955
Photographer: Adrian C. Fox
Location: Grand Forks Co., North Dakota; 1 mile east, 1 1/2 mile north Larimore, North Dakota
Watershed: unknown
This Picture Shows: Wind erosion on Ulen fine sandy loam with 2% slope. Land Class is III and the present land use is cropland. The land has been plowed and cultivated in preparation for seeding of small grain. The condition of these fields was brought about by high velocity winds up to 89 mph as recorded at Grand Forks, North Dakota (5 miles away). The fence corner picture showing one woven wire fence on top of another indicates that wind erosion has occurred on these fields before. Excessive grazing by sheep has exposed some areas of the pasture to wind erosion.

Date: unknown
Photographer: Champlin
Location: Slocum, Rhode Island
Watershed: unknown
This Picture Shows: Wind erosion in potato field. Rye cover crop afforded incomplete protection because it was planted too late.

Date: 4/24/1935
Photographer: Kenneth Welch
Location: Boca County, Colorado; Dunlap Ranch
Watershed: unknown
This Picture Shows: Dust storm, "ten seconds after this picture taken one could not see his hand in front of his face. It was dark as midnight for over an hour." taken at 3:52 P.M.

Date: 1935
Photographer: B. C. McLean
Location: Bacca County, Colorado
Watershed: unknown
This Picture Shows: This abandoned farmstead stands in ruin from blasting winds which have shifted top soil from field to cover the house and improvement. The old turning plow in foreground was left at the end of row in the field.

Date: 5/13/1936
Photographer: Sloan
Location: Gregory County, South Dakota
Watershed: unknown
This Picture Shows: Buried machinery in barn lot. Owner, O.N. Olsen, county commissioner of Gregory County, 1936

Date: 4/3/1959
Photographer: F. A. Mark
Location: Steptoe, Washington
Watershed: Pine Creek Soil Conservation District 2 miles North Steptoe, Washington
This Picture Shows: Clean cultivation, finely worked-seeded to winter wheat. Class IV. Two hundred tons soil loss per acre. Right side of road going north.

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