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New York Times: A ranch outside parched Boise City, Okla.
The small town of Boise City, Okla., which I wrote about in Wednesday`s Times, survived the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. But now it faces a confluence of dangers that could push it to the edge of extinction.
These include a record drought, a lack of economic development and a declining population. But another important factor that I did not have the space to discuss in the paper is the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer, which......
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Aquifer’s Depletion Poses Sweeping Threat
Posted by New York Times: KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Matthew Staver on May 4th, 2011
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