FILE - In this April 17, 1935 file photo Mrs. J.L. Vance digs mud out of the farm's watering tank that was home to dozens of goldfish before the dust storms near Garden City, Kan. Drifts several feet high can be seen in the yard, in background, caused by strong winds that blew the soil into huge clouds in the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was manmade, born of bad farming techniques across millions of acres in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas. Now, even as bad as the drought is in some of those same states, soil conservation practices developed in the aftermath of the Dust Bowl have kept the nightmarish storms from recurring. (AP Photo, File)