Rare map given to Lander

Retired chemist and friend of Lander John Barnes recently presented the university with a rare land use map created by his father during the Great Depression. C.P. Barnes, an economist and soil scientist working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, produced the map in 1933 as part of a broad-based effort to discourage harmful land-use policies that would soon culminate in the Dust Bowl, which despoiled large areas of the Great Plains and displaced millions of people from their homes.