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Originally Posted by Danzig
but tilling wasn't the sole cause. drought caused the seeds not to sprout, which meant no growth to hold the soil, which caused it to blow away. there was no reason, after years of farming that region, to think farming there was a bad thing. it certainly wasn't the farmers fault that the jet stream shifted, taking the rain with it.
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"In 1857, a bill was brought forth to the Ohio State Legislature seeking protection for the passenger pigeon."
"A Select Committee of the Senate filed a report stating, 'The passenger pigeon needs no protection. Wonderfully prolific, having the vast forests of the North as its breeding grounds, traveling hundreds of miles in search of food, it is here today and elsewhere tomorrow,
and no ordinary destruction can lessen them, or be missed from the myriads that are yearly produced.' "
"Fifty-seven years later, on September 1, 1914, Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, Ohio."
If I believed that man was a victim in the dust bowl, rather than the main contributory cause, then I would also have to blame the Colorado River no longer reaching the sea on, not because of man in the US literally sucking it dry and empty, but on weather (rain and snow melt) not providing man enough water to ensure our excessive drain and abuse could not suck it dry.
I don't believe that
