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Increasing drought conditions throughout the Farm Belt have triggered in a series of spring dust storms. These storm events have not only disturbed stable ecosystems, they have also resulted in catastrophic soil loss for for farmers and ranchers. Read more in this Civil Eats report.
“Neither derechos nor haboobs are common in the Northern Plains states. But dusty conditions have been on the rise as a result of the drought. “We’ve been getting more frequent reports of these dust events, and this year the reports have been the most I remember,” says Eugene Backhaus, a state resource conservationist with NRCS in Denver, Colorado—a region, he points out, that was the epicenter of last century’s Dust Bowl”
