2008Summer: From NASA, “With the added pressure of grazing, rangeland often suffers more than crop land during droughts. Even buffalo grass, one of the hardiest grasses on the Southern Plains, is dead or dying on some rangeland in Cimarron County, OK. In the background, winds have blown sandy soil into a pile, smothering the prairie” (NASA).
Reference: NASA. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OklahomaDrought/
Image Description: see case description. Image Credit and Location: NASA. Photograph courtesy Gary McManus, Oklahoma Climatological Survey. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OklahomaDrought/ Image Permission: This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that “NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted”.
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