Filmmaker Ken Burns describes what caused the decade long Dust Bowl during the Great Depression and explains why conservation was a key part of solving the problem. Burns created a TV series for PBS called “The Dust Bowl” where he interviewed dozens of survivors of the natural disaster.
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The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
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