Dust Bowl Soil Erosion

Roughly 25 million people left the Dust Bowl statesTexas New Mexico Colorado Nebraska Kansas and Oklahomaduring the 1930s.

Dust bowl soil erosion. The Dust Bowl Human-Caused Soil Erosion By Cindy Grigg Soil is like a thin skin covering the Earths rocky surface. This is called erosion. This would eventually lead to the creation of the NRCS one of the organizations that now assists with the Conservation Reserve Program.

The Dust Bowl occurred in the middle region of the United States including areas of Kansas Texas and Oklahoma. Dry farming techniques increased soil erodibility. Erosion is a natural process.

Thats what really happened during the Dust Bowl. By September there will be 161 soil erosion camps. In 1937 the federal government began an aggressive campaign to encourage Dust Bowlers to adopt planting and plowing methods that conserve the soil.

Drought reduced both soil cohesion making it more erodible and land cover leaving the soil less protected from wind action. The Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp in Clayton County Alabama. Perhaps no event did more to emphasize the severity of the erosion crisis in the popular imagination than the Dust Bowl.

The Great Depression began with the crash of the stock market in 1929 and intensified with the devastating conditions of the Dust Bowl. Dust Bowl Wind Storm Kansas State University This site may be offline This MPEG movie uses historic 1930s film footage to depict the dust storms that impacted the High Plains of the United States. Since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s it has become.

Farmers could lose a half-inch of topsoil by 2035more than eight times the amount of topsoil lost during the Dust Bowl. The government paid the reluctant farmers a dollar an acre to practice one of the new methods. Drought reduced both soil cohesion making it more erodible and land cover leaving the soil less protected from wind action.