Husker6.5
135' diagonal 16:9HD, 25KW sound!
Lush valleys and hollers, you'll love the drive through the Sandhills on Hwy 2. Rolling hills that were 300' sand dunes 8000 years ago, now covered with prairie grasses. You go up and down and wind around them, following the Middle Loup River on Hwy 2 for a good part of it as you drive past Halsey National Forest, the only National Forest that was completely hand planted, it was a CCC project during the Great Depression. Lots of cattle ranches, as this was the old buffalo grazing grounds of the Great Plains and has always been lush and verdant as it sits atop the Ogallala Aquifer, North America's largest aquifer, underlying eight states. The Sandhills and the area to the east of them are the Ogallala's recharge zone, where the water table is at the surface or just a few feet below, thousands of springs with the freshest, purest water you'll find in the U.S., often times stock tanks are filled simply by hand driving a well drill point a couple of feet down and an artesian well then fills them. Thousands of lakes in the low spots between hills, as they intersect the aquifer and are spring fed from the bottom. One look and if you're a lover of the land you'll fall in love with the area and know why we're ready to defend the Ogallala Aquifer with our lives against TransCanada from trying to run the Keystone XL Tarsands pipeline IN the Ogallala Aquifer for 22 miles in its recharge zone. We raise the beef that feeds not only the U.S., but export all over the world, not to mention that to the east of the Sandhills, the farms never have to worry about drought, as center pivot irrigation was invented there here in Nebraska because it is 2'-50' down to the aquifer, and it is 300'-600' thick there - the area is literally the bread basket of the world!
