The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly hurt agriculture in the US and Canada during the 1930s. Severe droughts and a failure to dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon. The Dust Bowl was in the southern states, mainly near the coast. The Dust Bowl drought started in 1934 and ended in 1937. The Dust Bowl was a long period of time where people had nothing but their own …show more content…
The Natural Resources Conservation Service has been working with homeowners and other federal agencies to maintain a nice and productive working space. The creation of the Soil Conservation Service represented the efforts of Hugh Hammond Bennett. He tried to awaken the public concern for the problem of soil erosion. He observed how soil erosion by water and the wind reduced the ability of the land to save agriculture productivity and to support rural communities. He influenced Congress to create the first federal soil erosion experiment stations in 1929 (80 Years Helping People the Land).
The Dust Bowl was a great historical event that caused a lot of deaths, departures, and disease. The diseases caused many fatal deaths because the people couldn’t go to the doctor because the dust was too thick to get through. The soil dried up and blew away with the dust. The Dust Bowl caused a major drought causing many fatal deaths. The Dust Bowl was a devastating destruction of homes, farms, and families in the mid-western