Why restoring America's Great Plains is a responsibility and opportunity.Dust storm in Texas, 1935The Dust BowlThe 1930’s Dust Bowl was a manmade environmental catastrophe that greatly eroded sections of the Great Plains in the United States. An insufficient understanding of the Plains ecosystem led to extensive deep plowing of topsoil, displacing the native, deep-rooted grasses that normally trapped soil and moisture during periods of drought and high winds in order to grow large quanti...