e/Great Plains Shelterbelt

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has glosseng: The Great Plains Shelterbelt was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States, and was launched in 1934. President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated the project in response to the severe dust storms of the Dust Bowl, which resulted in significant soil erosion and drought. The United States Forest Service believed that planting trees on the perimeters of farms would reduce wind velocity and lessen evaporation of moisture from the soil. The Great Plains Shelterbelt was allowed under the 1924 Clarke-McNary Act, and was carried out by the Works Projects Administration (WPA). By 1942, 30,233 shelterbelts had been planted, which contained 220 million trees and stretched for .
lexicalizationeng: Great Plains Shelterbelt
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