National Resources Board of 1934 or National Resources Planning Board was established by Franklin Roosevelt on June 30, 1934. President Roosevelt created the federal government committee by the authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 by issuance of Executive Order 6777.^[1][2]

The national board was entrusted as an advisory committee for natural resources information. The National Resources Committee published analysis and land-use planning reports from 1934 to 1943.^[3]

The Executive Order charged the advisory board with several proposed objectives.

• Designated Advisory Committee

Frederic Adrian Delano

Charles Edward Merriam

Wesley Clair Mitchell

Additional members may be added by order of the U.S. President

Technical committee is prohibited from a fixed membership or tenure of office as selected by the Board

• Program and plan of procedure analyzing the physical, social, governmental, and economic aspects of public policies for the development and use of land, water, and other national resources
• Board to provide a report on land and water use on or before December 1, 1934^[4][5]
• Program and plan shall include the coordination of projects of Federal, State, and local governments.
• Program and plan shall include the proper division of responsibility and the fair division of cost among governmental authorities

In pursuant of Executive Order 6777, the national resources board abolished relative federal government authorities.

• National Planning Board of Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works^[6]
• Committee on National Land Problems created by Executive Order No. 6695 on April 28, 1934^[7]

1936 North American cold wave

1936 North American heat wave

Dust Bowl

Harold L. Ickes

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Rural economics

Soil conservation

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936

• Wooten, Hugh Hill (1965). The Land Utilization Program, 1934 to 1964: Origin, Development, and Present Status [Agricultural Economic Report No. 85]. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 10892495.
• "National Grasslands Management: A Primer" [Appendix C: The Land Utilization Program 1934 to 1964 – Origin, Development, and Present Status] (PDF). U.S. Forest Service ~ U.S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• National Conference on Land Utilization (May 1932). "Proceedings of the National Conference on Land Utilization, Chicago, Ill., November 19-21, 1931". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• Murphy, Philip G. (July 15, 1935). The Drought of 1934 (PDF). U.S. Drought Coordinating Committee / Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
• Cronin, Francis D; Beers, Howard W (January 1937). Areas of Intense Drought Distress, 1930–1936 (PDF). Research Bulletin (United States. Works Progress Administration. Division of Social Research). U.S. Works Progress Administration / Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
• U.S. Soil Conservation Service (1939). "Action Program Designed to Bring About Basic Adjustments in the Use and Treatment of the Land". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• U.S. Soil Conservation Service (1939). "Land Utilization Program: Project Location Maps". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• U.S. Soil Conservation Service (November 1953). "Land Facts". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• Wilhite, Donald A. "Dust Bowl". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
• Worster, Donald (12 June 2010). "Dust Bowl". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.