1. Forgiven Not Forgotten: a Short History of Wind Erosion on the Canadian Prairies

Since agriculture arrived on the Canadian prairies in the late 1800s, wind erosion has always been a constant threat. The 1930s saw some of the worst wind erosion but spurred the invention and adoption of soil management techniques to provide better crop residue management, the number one line of defense against wind erosion. The conservation tillage movement of the 1990s saw increased no-till and summer-fallow almost disappeared. However, recent trends of more intensive tillage on the Canadian... F. Larney