Dust Bowl Soil Erosion. What was the dust bowl? The dust bowl resulted from the simultaneous combination of drought and economic depression in a region where farmers had not yet learned effective land management techniques.
It was the most damaging and prolonged environmental disaster in american history. During this time, many people suffered great hardships, and many died. The lost soil takes with it most of the organic carbon, and it is this component that is most difficult to replace.
As a result, the basic causes, effects and remedies of wind erosion have been the focus of research by the usda's agricultural research service.
When winds blew, they raised enormous clouds of dust. Yet, as montgomery (2007) argues, soil erosion is far more widespread than that. Economic recovery, cessation of drought, and implementation of erosion control programs combined to end the dust bowl by the end of the 1930s. And in 1975, the council of agricultural science and technology warned that severe drought in the great plains could trigger another dust bowl.