How did The Dust Bowl affect The Great Basin area?
The dust bowl was caused, because farmers at the time did not switch from using different crops each season causing the fertile soil across The Great Basin to go dry. Weather also played an important role in why this happened. The Dust Bowl was a huge impact on the great depression. People were devistated from the dust bowl.They couldnt grow any crops because there land was bare. The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops and other techniques to prevent erosion.[1] Deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains had killed the natural grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds.
