ABSTRACT
Two thousand acres of sand-dune land in Dallam County, Tex., 8 miles north of Dalhart, were used for studying and devising methods for stabilizing sand dunes and making them eventually useful for grazing and cultivation. This chapter describes the methods used on this study area to serve as suggestions for treatment of other sand-dune areas. On the study area the following steps were taken to reclaim the sand-dune sites: controlling the critical area; leveling the sand dunes so they could be planted; deep listing between and around the dunes to catch the sand and to build on the hard eroded subsoils; and planting to prevent additional soil movement. Reclamation of wind-eroded land by machinery is sometimes too expensive to be justifiable unless the menace to adjoining areas is serious. The development of methods by which the land could again be made valuable for agriculture or grazing was the principal problem confronting the Soil Conservation Service.
