Desertification can cause flooding, poor water quality, dust storms, and pollution. All of these effects can hurt people living near an affected region. (The Facts of Desertification and United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, 2000) In the Sahel Desert, desertification is becoming a huge problem. Around the 1950âs, people settled into the Sahel region, in areas where there was water.
1 Crawford County Cemetery Resources WIGenWeb Project. 2  Crawford County Tombstone Photograph Pages USGenWeb Archives. 3  1820 Census - Prairie du Chien WIGenWeb Project.  1836 Crawford County Territorial Census For 1836 USGenWeb Archives.
Prairie Island Indian Community. The water tower for the Prairie Island Indian Community. Prairie Island Indian Community (Dakota: Tinta Winta) is a Mdewakanton Sioux Indian reservation in Goodhue County, Minnesota, along the Mississippi River. Most of the reservation now lies within the city of Red Wing, which developed after this land was set aside.