In 1994 the United Nations established World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
on June 17.

The date coincides with the June 17, 1994, signing of the Convention to Combat Desertification.

Observances draw attention to the need for cooperation between nations in order to stop
desertification and respond to drought.

Full story: https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/World+Day+to+Combat+Desertification+and
+Drought

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Re: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
By: Mike Dippel to All on Wed Jun 17 2026 10:41 pm

In 1994 the United Nations established World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
on June 17.

Funny I read this today. Rain has been strong the last days and the horseyard is flooded. I was planning to clean a field at the other side of the yard but I cannot get the chart to it through the flooded zone.


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Re: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
By: Mike Dippel to All on Wed Jun 17 2026 10:41 pm

In 1994 the United Nations established World Day to Combat Desertification >> and Drought
on June 17.

Funny I read this today. Rain has been strong the last days and the
horseyard is flooded. I was planning to clean a field at the other side of the yard but I cannot get the chart to it through the flooded zone.

Your property is in a flatlands, no drainage? Is the soil mostly clay?

We've had quite a lot of rain pre-summer already. It rained for neary 5 days every day last week and this week, in Ontario, Canada.
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In 1994 the United Nations established World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
on June 17.

Funny I read this today. Rain has been strong the last days and the horseyard is flooded. I was planning to clean a field at the other side of the yard but cannot get the chart to it through the flooded zone.

Same here in Kentucky, USA. A few nice days but more heavy rain coming by
the end of the weekend.

When I read the above, I can understand combating drought.
Desertification, OTOH, I thought was a natural process... nature's way of telling people don't build big settlements here. Places like Palm Springs being indications that we don't listen too good. ;)

Mike P


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Funny I read this today. Rain has been strong the last days and the horseya

>> is flooded. I was planning to clean a field at the other side of the yard b
>> cannot get the chart to it through the flooded zone.

Same here in Kentucky, USA. A few nice days but more heavy rain coming by

>the end of the weekend.

When I read the above, I can understand combating drought.

>Desertification, OTOH, I thought was a natural process... nature's way of
>telling people don't build big settlements here. Places like Palm Springs
>being indications that we don't listen too good. ;)

It's nice to think we have some control over that but that control
is severely limited, plus we have short attention spans when looking
at time over hundreds or thousands of years. Like, at one time most
of the prairies in central Canada, some of the finest growing land
in the world, was once mostly all desert.. and there's nothing to
say it won't revert back to that some day, maybe sooner than we think.

When the 'First' Nations came to Canada, they got here by walking
across a land bridge from what is today Eastern Europe to Alaska.

They don't want you to know that when they got here Canada had
already been colonized for about 1000 years by Asians who came
here by primitive ship before the land bridge had formed.
So the 'First' Nations were actually not the first inhabitants
here, they were the first Colonizers to steal the land from the
people living here when they got here.. B)

The leftovers of those first people are the Inuit, who are
ironically Not included in the 634 Indigenous Governments
and Bands recognized in Canada as 'First' Nations.

Plus things like Florida at one time was totally underwater..
(..and probably most of Manhattan.)

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Re: Re: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
By: Ogg to Arelor on Fri Jun 19 2026 08:20 am

the yard but I cannot get the chart to it through the flooded zone.

Your property is in a flatlands, no drainage? Is the soil mostly clay?

Soil is mostly clay, but the horseyard is particularly hard because my darlings spend their days playing on it, stomping it, rolling on it, so the surface is extremely compacted and drainage is zero.

Then there is the fact the river is close nearby, underground water level is extremely close to surface, and humidity is high. So it is great in the sense everything is green and brimming with vegetation, but everything takes ages to dry.


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