President Franklin D Roosevelt Impact On Framers

Framers finally buckled under, and took help from the government. The Soil Conservation Service paid farmers to leave fields idle, so land management techniques such as crop rotation could be put into effect and the start of planting native prairie grasses. Federal Government also purchased more than ten million acres for grasslands, some of which are still managed under the U.S. Forest Service today. They also purchased cattle to butcher for sixteen dollars a head, with the meat used to feed the homeless who lived in Hoovervilles (Surviving the Dust Bowl). In President Franklin Roosevelt’s first one hundred days of office, his administration quickly initiated programs to conserve soil and restore the ecological balance of the nation. In his