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Rainier in the distance, Puget Sound, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173241695-4L90ZXLLTBHKN2YS9WZD/midden-exposed-by-blowout.jpg Data Acqusition A Neolithic midden exposed by an active blowout dune, Magheramore Dunes, County Donegal, Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1583854327960-MO4DQ6V1AHI05KZ5ZVF7/deer-crossing.jpg Data Acqusition Mule deer gallop across a country road, Dallam County, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582858650921-DEKJT6FMIL8VACO4T6R8/kenya-taveta.jpg Data Acqusition Sunset over the Taveta region, near Mt. Kilimanjaro, Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173218352-YXGU6V5OKLC41NSR090A/elwha_shore.jpg Data Acqusition Ebb tide, Elwha Beach, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173219232-ZLPPXBDDO8KU2XYT90M1/equipment.jpg Data Acqusition All. The. Gear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173233664-G5EWCUUACRI0WYZHAUU2/first_snowfall_horstmann-thompson-williams-peak.jpg Data Acqusition Thompson & Williams peaks, Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173218298-OGH0QAH5B3621GSTVTU4/elwha.jpg Data Acqusition Watch out for the quicksand! Elwha Beach, Clallam County, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173229477-MXMDAVIURO7GYWNA5TIF/country-road.jpg Data Acqusition Moon rise over the southern plains, Baca County, Colorado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173224649-UGDX0W2TY1ZFWF7XA2BU/first-hitch.jpg Data Acqusition Monitoring hitch into the backcountry, Sawtooth Wilderness Area, Idaho. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173220948-VDBP2S6Z9URUWS2KXZ9A/first-snow-westernWA.jpg Data Acqusition First snow of the season, western Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173225593-F80HTL3ERP2VXH8ZDDNW/flighting-erosion.JPG Data Acqusition Fighting coastal erosion! Long Beach, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173223947-WBE3AAV5K8CEULKL33R2/freshwater-bay-2.jpg Data Acqusition Looking west across Freshwater Bay to the Olympic Mountains, Clallam County, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173233692-ZX9N705N0CBBDJVYEQ18/gp-survey.jpg Data Acqusition Mapping and measuring the emissivity of a sand dune, Hamilton County, Kansas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173228295-QJGSDMDL596CHGJ8S0LL/IMG_0383.jpg Data Acqusition Looking west at the Atlantic Ocean over the headlands at Magheramore Dunes, County Donegal, Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173241647-YX0UAYHERCOYIXLRCFLV/kenya-forest.jpg Data Acqusition Learning how binoculars work, Shimoni Coastal Forests, Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173233954-E6VOZUVDCB6FTNP9GG5T/IMG_0748.jpg Data Acqusition Exploring the Sawtooth WIlderness Area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173235020-4F7XQCD2DG6XDNFL7PEQ/IMG_1014.jpg Data Acqusition Millions of years of Earth's history in one photograph, Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173232470-7HG9ME28W37L1MPBRX83/intrepid_long-beach.jpg Data Acqusition Remnants of the Intrepid shipwreck, Long Beach, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173241588-LKIH0KZNYTRQN7YVXD3Z/kenya-kili.jpg Data Acqusition Mt. Kilimanjaro at dawn, Taveta Region, Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173240109-M4KSEIUF32DX2PWVQV7O/Lake390.jpg Data Acqusition Glacial lake #390, Sawtooth Wilderness Area, Idaho. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173227762-N3TP62Q5BRE35BQV92ZC/IMG_0380.jpg Data Acqusition Active blowouts, Magheramore Dunes, County Donegal, Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582860472347-7IN5MTCC4TG9UGNQ16XC/LB_sp14_bald_eagle_10.jpg Data Acqusition A bald eagle supervises the survey, Elwha Beach, Washington. Credit: Heather Weiner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173237882-J05PJTY5Q58CEY3CMO6G/lidar-targets.jpg Data Acqusition LIDAR targets ready for testing, Puget Sound, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173263482-JYXE0XBN8O9AHI1TX09Q/monahans.jpg Data Acqusition Monahans Dunes, west Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173230993-DKMXK90GTXPVHL48J3C6/IMG_0809.jpg Data Acqusition Inventory & Monitoring, Sawtooth Wilderness Area. Credit: Saya Clancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173245095-GOC6PDGL5MQESMF6PAHO/north-atlantic-from-magheramore.jpg Data Acqusition The beach at Tramore, County Donegal, Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173252506-L9J8ZP68RA8787LQ2YFI/ms-piswerl.jpg Data Acqusition Measuring the emissivity of a cultivated field with a portable wind tunnel, Hamilton County, Kansas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173244629-8YF6MYGR5CS7OEBKT04H/old-wa-shipping.jpg Data Acqusition Shuttered dock, Puget Sound, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173253193-I2A1CEBEQ09JUZNKGWVG/RewardPeak.jpg Data Acqusition Post-fire recovery, Sawtooth Wilderness Area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173244331-7N2LWH4R21FR69N79S6R/pacific-sunset.jpg Data Acqusition Sunset, Grayland, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173244049-TZ6CHQVN2FH7IIC3QG08/ranger.jpg Data Acqusition Surface mapping, Klipsan Beach, Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173251847-RASS9G4BLMTPIEFO1ZBD/SofSnowyside.png Data Acqusition First snowfall, at the base of (the appropriately named) Snowyside Peak, Sawtooth Mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173252263-1RU1TN1QUPUQ5CG5UW5K/rv-george-davidson-in-water.JPG Data Acqusition RV George Davidson, undertaking a dual-LIDAR and multi-beam SONAR study of Washington's beaches & bluffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173228175-3VGXMRAFI8EBA9FVCRUZ/IMG_0449.jpg Data Acqusition Magheramore Dunes, Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173247173-NR36F9Y7U2AVT2ADNW3M/topo-survey.jpg Data Acqusition Walking a topographic survey line on a beach in Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173251806-HAMLV6TSBS1RP2N6NR9J/walkin+the+bush+2.jpg Data Acqusition Descending Salaita Hill, Taveta, Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173257200-UNK4BZVRHEM3XVOK9EAQ/welcome-to-stanley.jpg Data Acqusition Entering Stanley, Idaho. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173254269-TRX4J4RMCY3W1E65C8TB/whats-down-there.jpg Data Acqusition Don't pull the rope... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582173256576-SR5RHLTVO0IIADWTSFY2/white-clouds.jpg Data Acqusition White Cloud Mountains, Idaho. https://www.kcbolles.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2020-02-18 https://www.kcbolles.com/bio daily 0.75 2020-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1581978558312-ZMSOLB1CO4XGQCJL3SAR/Kasey_Bolles_circle.png Bio https://www.kcbolles.com/home daily 1.0 2026-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1594239125579-O1K15F7R7NBD3WN9YYTK/Kasey_Bolles_curve.png Home https://www.kcbolles.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-07-19 https://www.kcbolles.com/research daily 0.75 2026-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/243c2982-a3b0-4a04-92a5-9720201096e8/20200214_152238.jpg Research - DROUGHT: Drought affects far more than precipitation totals. It shapes water availability, vegetation stress, agricultural production, wildfire risk, ecosystem resilience, and human communities. My postdoctoral research used tree-ring records, climate data, and atmospheric circulation patterns to place recent western U.S. drought conditions in a much longer historical context. As part of a collaborative study published in Science, we used a network of tree-ring records across western North America to show that the recent megadrought ranks among the most severe droughts of the past 1,200 years. I also led research using tree-ring data to reconstruct atmospheric circulation patterns linked to central U.S. “flash droughts,” published in Geophysical Research Letters. Selected Work: Williams et al., 2020; Bolles et al., 2021. Media: SparkDialog with Dr. Elizabeth Fernandez; Top of Mind with Julie Rose; Outside/In. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582907200226-UUREUZN9E5659HI940EI/20170307_163257.jpg Research - DUST: My doctoral research focused on the 1930s Dust Bowl and the long-running question of how climate, land use, soils, vegetation, and landforms combined to produce one of the most consequential environmental crises in U.S. history. Although the Dust Bowl is often explained primarily through cultivation and land misuse, the most severely degraded areas did not always align with the most heavily cultivated areas. To investigate this, I combined fieldwork, historical aerial photography, archival records, stratigraphic sections, soil and vegetation mapping, landform interpretation, and portable wind-tunnel measurements. This work showed that naturally occurring sandy rangelands also contributed to Dust Bowl dust emissions, complicating a simple human-caused degradation narrative and highlighting the importance of understanding landscape vulnerability before crisis conditions emerge. Selected Work: Bolles et al., 2017; Bolles and Forman, 2018; Bolles et al., 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582085296542-MVPBGTSFTCH62CG4ILCS/CitizensInDustMasksLiberalKS.jpg Research - LANDSCAPE IMPACTS: Drought and dust are reminders that landscape change has human consequences. Soil erosion, vegetation loss, aridity, and airborne dust can affect air quality, respiratory health, food security, and the uneven distribution of environmental risk. In collaboration with researchers at National Jewish Health and CU Anschutz, I examined mortality during the 1930s Dust Bowl drought. The work found elevated rates of pneumonia-related deaths in southern Great Plains states compared with the national average, highlighting why land condition, climate stress, and human vulnerability need to be understood together. https://www.kcbolles.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2020-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1581978558312-ZMSOLB1CO4XGQCJL3SAR/Kasey_Bolles_circle.png About https://www.kcbolles.com/dust-bowl-gallery daily 0.75 2026-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080543521-LS3PU935TEVNRD6MNMLX/RG114-E113-115_1940-approaching-dust-storm-Elkhart-KS-May-30-1940.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery An approaching dust storm at Elkhart, Kansas. May 13, 1940. Figure 1 in "Studies of methods of establishing plant covers for erosion control", c. 1939-1940. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 113 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080705300-C15OM2AULWY2I5AFZXMJ/RG114-E109-385_1933-farmers-using-lister.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery An attachment fastened to a lister by which dams were made in lister furrows. c. 1933. Figure 6 in Annual Report of Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080552377-LHW7G1XM3AX7F4F93BCV/RG114-E109-478.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Cover of pamphlet on soil erosion, c. 1934. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080494741-1KPKQ5HM5HF7E8OJ3O68/A.Roth2.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle. March, 1936. Credit: Arthur Rothstein. LOC ID: cph.3c25986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080496067-1CXD1IB5WT3L2VW6KH3R/A.Roth5.Duststorm..jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Dust storm in Amarillo, TX. April, 1936. Credit: Arthur Rothstein. LOC ID: fsa.8b27557 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080496174-2ASPNQ0HQG70XZ75T1S8/AerialImage.MWR.June.1936.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Aerial view of the beginning of a dust storm over the prairie lands east of Denver. June, 1936. Credit: Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 64(7), Fig. 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080494985-44UY3GB4P4KJJVALI3P9/ApproachingDustStorm.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Approaching dust storm, Kansas. c. 1935. KSHS ID: 318963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080803565-V9I2C9L8Z9O3H4WFW67L/RG114-E112-0291_volunteers-before-a-survey.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Volunteers preparing for a survey. Undated. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 112. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080495161-MLNNJBNTC2KF2SEAW26Z/ApproachingDustStormMiddleWest.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Approaching dust storm in middle west. Undated. Credit: Conrad. LOC ID: cph.3a42643 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080543150-IPW3PW39JMB81QOVY66I/Roth.3Listing..jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Latest type of listing machine in operation, Carson County, Texas. April, 1936. Credit: Arthur Rothstein. LOC ID: fsa.8b27346 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080496005-8CES1IE0YDYB6ZG5O8WE/ApproachingDustStormStovall.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Approaching dust storm, Ford County, Kansas. 1935. Credit: Stovall Studio. KSHS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080793896-9NIU1IQ79H8SEGEV0N9T/RG114-E112-1170.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Dust storm data maintained by SCS observers. May, 1938. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 112. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080496586-4S5M0QA7QD6PZ2LDOQP1/April14%2C1936.DodgeCity.Kansas.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery The infamous "Black Sunday" of April 14, 1935, Dodge City, Kansas. Credit: Stovall Studio. KSHS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080497563-X5RSG4TQIUHICQ5RM2OW/Art.Roth4.dRIFTING+SOIL.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Drifting soil in a farmyard, Hartley County, Texas. April, 1936. Credit: Arthur Rothstein. LOC ID: fsa.8b27376 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080501596-ZP9LWOG2TQE0066TB5VP/black_blizzard_texas_1935_photo11.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Black Blizzard of Texas. 1935. Credit: Civilian Conservation Corps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080497091-17RT51BG2AC7E4BC4W6P/dustbowl28-930x504.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Dust storm approaching Clayton, New Mexico. 1937. Credit: The Los Angeles Times, May 29, 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080540264-0KIBDJAM8EG7M02O4W0N/RG114-E109-333_1941-seedbed-prep-with-lister.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Drilling blue grama grass on basin listed fallow with SCS grass drill, Hays, Kansas. April 14, 1941. Credit: L.E. Wegner. Figure 6 in Annual Report Soil Covervation Investigations, Fort Hays Experiment Station, 1941. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080497676-YT766XNYP82VHJ3XQT38/DustStormLiberalKS.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Dust storm in Liberal, Kansas. April 14, 1935. Credit: Turtle Studios. KSHS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080497320-0OFZZ99EV9TG7B9BSKS4/DustStormMortonCoKS.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Dust storm in Morton County, Kansas. c. 1933-1937. KSHS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080498738-XBJLTZ0BK5WV6MSE7XAG/DustStormMortonCoKS2.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Dust storm in Morton County, Kansas. c. 1935. KSHS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080499591-X0LZ3DHG16H6VIEWCF36/DustStormTyroneKS.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Dust storm west of Tyrone, Kansas disrupts a rabbit drive. 1935. KSHS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080764037-D3LMDF0UDRGW75FYMKI4/RG114-E109-510.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Estimates of the extent of erosion in different regions of Kansas (CL= cultivated land; Er = eroded). May 9, 1933. Included in "A Survey of the Damage Done by Wind Erosion in Southwestern Kansas" by Orville E. Hays. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080535985-T7LRVZ79U7R49H7LYSFW/RG114-E109-057_1934-farm-machinery.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Side view of 16-foot elevating grader and Caterpillar 35 diesel tractor constructing a terrace, Hays, Kansas. May 8, 1934. Fig. 15 in Bureau of Agricultural Engineering annual report, 1934. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080496374-0R7AFNISRQC6KBNXOYTQ/A.Roth.7.Farmdrought.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Farm near Dickinson, North Dakota. July, 1936. Credit: Arthur Rothstein. LOC ID: fsa.8b28144 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080517842-QJZM0WA0DR3TIO0OXRWQ/RG114-E109-394_soil-removed-to-plow-depth.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery A field frrom which all of the soil was removed to plow depth with the exception of that packed by the tractor wheels, southwestern Kansas. 1933 Annual Report Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080639884-WNB6S9JUWDDKSDAEHOLX/RG114-E109-023_1934-car-on-covered-road.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Wind drifted soil 3/4 mile north of the Saline River and 15 miles west of Ellis, Kansas. c. 1934. Figure 19 in Annual Report of Bureau of Agricultural Engineering. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080824701-U79HVO0BHEHOUR525966/RG114-E113-129_disc-drill.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery A combination grass and cover-crop disc drill. Figure 6 in "Studies of methods of establishing plant covers for erosion control", c. 1939-1940. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 113 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080663651-Y778Z4GJ1MCN4FLZJ1TA/RG114-E109-036_wind-erosion-near-hays-ks.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Wind erosion near Hays, Kansas obscures building in background. c. 1934. Figure 9 in Annual Report of Bureau of Agricultural Engineering. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080647931-OQBPFCJ5T7E5LCFRDVBH/RG114-E109-075_1933-railroad-fence-full-of-windblown-soil.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery About 2 miles west of Sublette, KS. Railroad field fence drifted full of wind blown soil. In many places the 1932 tillage was all blown away. May 9, 1933. Figure 20 in Erosion Report by Bureau of Agricultural Engineering. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080642786-XBS2UMBDJWUSA6COG43E/RG114-E109-076_1933-Dreese-Farm.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery North side highway No. 160 about 2 miles west of Ulysses on C. A. Dreese farm. Note buried machinery and the man excavating to get it loose. This section of land lost nearly all of its tilled top soil. Only drift remain of the top soil. May 10, 1933. Figure 26 in Erosion Report by Bureau of Agricultural Engineering. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080696248-2FBEZGWJK20K9EL8NTC8/RG114-E109-320_1941-harvesting-operation.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery A general view of the harvesting operation. November 12, 1941. Credit: L.C. Aicher. Figure 3 in Annual Report of Soil Conservation Investigations - KAN-R-1. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080638567-DW80G2ECDYLP9MIX1ZAD/RG114-E109-077_field-north-of-bigbow-1933.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Looking south toward Bigbow, KS. May 10, 1933. Figure 29 in Erosion Report by Bureau of Agricultural Engineering. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080677970-GJTOV9R3MVRFO3A01I89/RG114-E109-077_Henson-farm-1933.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Henson farm about 3 miles NE of Ulysses, KS. The tilled soil of 1932 is blown away. May 10, 1933. Figure 28 in Erosion Report by Bureau of Agricultural Engineering. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080733182-0GWOCWH4PN14CIWAT8AU/RG114-E109-443.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Newspaper clipping mailed to H.H. Bennett by W.J. Wathaim. April 23, 1931. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080686270-1QYE51KU5ALG8WUFZK51/RG114-E109-162_1939-pasture-contour-furrows.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Contour furrows on an experimental plot, Hays, Kansas. c. 1939. Figure 2 in Annual Report of Soil Conservation Investigations - KAN-R-1. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080696825-L7BZHBU3I9JZXSNCWDVU/RG114-E109-267_1940-sodding-furrows-with-buffalo-grass.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Dropping chunks of buffalo grass sod in furrows made with a duckfoot. c. 1940. Credit: L.C. Aicher. Figure 12 in Annual Report of Soil Conservation Investigations. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080730401-KSBHHH4PCSSUTGJV03LQ/RG114-E109-337_1941-pantographing-revegetation-plots.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Pantographing ground cover on revegetation plots. November 8, 1941. Credit: L.E. Wenger. Figure 10 in Annual Report of Soil Conservation Investigations - KAN-R-1. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080716968-X8V06MYRCV076R4QKUJN/RG114-E109-394_1933-soil-drifts-around-machinery-SWKS.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Soil drifted around and over machinery until a combine platform was buried under six inches of soil, southwestern Kansas. c. 1933. Figure 12 in Annual Report Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080716199-KDTTFL8CN6WMJH1MJ1G1/RG114-E109-395_1933-drifts-around-car-SWKS.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Soil drift in southwestern Kansas that was 30 inches high, 20 feet wide, and 100+ feet long. c. 1933. Figure 13 in Annual Report Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080770122-1IVEDMVI2PF7E7UJE7PG/RG114-E111-043_1941-Springfield.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Springfield, Colorado. May 27, 1941. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 111. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080768609-4L73E388PK18SFJHEWQF/RG114-E111-047_1941-volunteer-measures-growth.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Volunteer shows plant growth in front of terrace ridge. October 27, 1941. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 111. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080776002-B5WQAWR20KF0YWMUQWIZ/RG114-E112-0228_1940-sand-dunes-at-Dalhart-station.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery A view of the sand dunes on the Dalhart Substation. c. 1940. Figure 1 in "Soil and erosion changes on the Dalhart sand dune area," Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, Vol. 32(4), April 1940. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 112. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080826393-N0MJ5JGQIIVVNDNVXMZN/RG114-E256-034_1948-farmer-with-soil-thats-not-his.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Arthur Patterson fingers topsoil that is not really his. It blew on his land from an adjacent cotton field. Tahoka, Texas. December, 1948. Credit: K.E. Huddleston. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080815517-VYSD590RV6NG7ABV6EP5/RG114-E256-048_1935-sand-drifted-road-TX.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery View of sand drifted on road on which travel is impossible by automobiles, western Texas. April, 1935. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582828290294-XD3Q5YL5LS5DDLBX6JM6/RG114-E109-438.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Newspaper report on dust storms in The Eagle (Bryan, Texas). May 3, 1933. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582829228825-AGUWQDW4WBJ2TDCGMLQ7/RG114-E112-0181_instrument-station-at-Dalhart_v2.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Instrument tower at Dalhart, Texas. Undated. Included in "Climate factors in the Dust Bowl". National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 112. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080695863-DBSP5ZOVISRGVPX58EJ4/RG114-E109-266_sod.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery The method of obtaining and handling sod where transportation was a factor. c. 1940. Credit: L.C. Aicher. Figure 11 in Annual Report of Soil Conservation Investigations - KAN-R-1. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 109. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080833242-PQGE0V9LB2FZID50S1PC/RG114-E256-059_classIX-land.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Land Use Capability Class VIII, western Texas. Undated. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080838337-9V6GCMNGG36PDZBIIHKR/RG114-E256-115_1948-crossing-drainage.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Earl Smith, SCS technician, demonstrates how farmers crossed a large drainage ditch before suitable bridges were constructed, Wagoner, Oklahoma. October 22, 1948. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080838901-9O63TSNMM2EYL6BNMLTW/RG114-E256-131_1949-bluestem.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery King Ranch bluestem plant being prepared for exhibition at the Dallas State Fair, San Antonio, Texas. October 4, 1949. Credit: Lester Fox. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080858481-XRRGT55IHDI5IKW6TP2O/RG114-E256-133_1949_bluestem-in-situ.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Close-up of in situ King Ranch bluestem root system, San Antonio, Texas. October 4, 1949. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080860394-HFL2YYDNWZ83R4M9LWNK/RG114-E256-137_1950-drifting-sand.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Drifting sand blowing in from nearby cotton field almost buried farm implements, Hockley County, Texas. April 6, 1950. Credit: Lester Fox. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080867445-FV35PRGRGFV4X9U97ZDO/RG114-E256-139_1950-woman-protecting-face-from-sand.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Mrs. Moore protects her face against stinging sand as she returns to her home from hired hand's house. Note sand piled up around haystack. Sand got into bundle feed and Moore's cow went dry after eating the sand-peppered feed, Moore said. Hockley County, Texas. April 6, 1950. Credit: Lester Fox. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080866534-NY7KN8484A3QROCDW6LX/RG114-E256-147_1950-man-in-dust-storm.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Mr. Moore ducks his head, holds on to his hat as he makes his way home in dust storm, Hockley County, Texas. April 6, 1950. Credit: Lester Fox. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582840348713-LBB5O4MSKKJC07CZM81U/L.Russel.Dust.Storm.N.Dakota.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Dust storm near Williston, North Dakota. October, 1937. Credit: L. Russel. LOC ID: fsa.8b36922 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582080864098-QFALPHSTPZJVZMJFXVTI/RG114-E256-151_1948-grass-display.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Display by the USDA at the Texas State Fair, Dallas, Texas. October 15, 1948. National Archives, Record Group 114, Entry 256. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582840660154-MY4KRI1N4AZLZ85SONY0/Coldwater%2BDistrict%252C%2Bnorth%2Bof%2BDalhart%252C%2BTexas.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. June, 1938. Credit: Dorothea Lange. LOC ID: fsa.8b32396 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582840567679-ICB5CCZF97YSL5B0F4EF/Dot.Lang.4.jpg Dust Bowl Gallery Highway north of Amarillo, Texas. August, 1938. Credit: Dorothea Lange. LOC ID: fsa.8b34910 https://www.kcbolles.com/galleries daily 0.75 2026-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582733455957-7N1BHVCMP7CJ7800UX0Q/IMG_1016.jpg Galleries Sawtooth Wilderness Area, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e46f224017bc8328ae8716a/1582733742871-WRCY16DW4DE7802OS02M/20180513_203217.jpg Galleries Dallam County, Texas, 2018.