The Dust Bowl

I have been slaving over a 10-15 page research paper for soil science, a draft of which is due Friday. SUCCESS! I at least have 10-11ish pages... can't necessarily vouch for the quality! I'm writing about the American Dust Bowl and it's affects on soil conservation in the US... aka not as much as it should have had. Although there were some New Deal efforts to restore the lands, which lost an estimated 480 tons of topsoil per acre, these lands soon became recultivated or turned into pasturelands. Sad times, right?

The real irony is that small farms are blamed for the majority of wind erosion during the Dust Bowl. They were smaller and therefore less likely to invest in preventative measures like windbreaks and fallow strips. These days, small farms are the ones making the intentional decision to make the sustainable choices.