The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8624
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Popper, Deborah; Popper, Frank
Journal:	Planning
Volume:	53
Page(s):	12-18
Date:	1987
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8624
Sector:	Land Tenure & Use
Region:	North America
Subject(s):	land tenure and use land degradation wildlife human-environment interaction tragedy of the commons
Abstract:	"During America's pioneer days and then again during the Great Depression, the Plains were a prominent national concern. But by 1952, in his book The Great Frontier, the Plains' finest historian, the late Walter Prescott Webb of the University of Texas, could accurately describe them as the least-known, most fateful part of the United States. We believe that over the next generation the Plains will, as a result of the largest, longest-running agricultural and environmental miscalculation in American history, become almost totally depopulated. At that point, a new use for the region will emerge, one that is in fact so old that it predates the American presence. We are suggesting that the region be returned to its original pre-white state, that it be, in effect, deprivatized."

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