Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. A First Nation in southern Alberta is bringing back an old innovation, with the hopes it'll help them cope with climate change on the ...
The M.D. of Taber has a Shelterbelt Program. “The Municipal District of Taber Agricultural Service Board created the Shelterbelt Program in 2019,” said a spokesperson for the M.D. of Taber. “The ...
A dust storm approaches Cimarron County in the Oklahoma Panhandle on January 12, 2014. Drought, plus the deterioration of the Prairie States Shelterbelt, created in the 1930s, are contributing to the ...
RURAL LARIMORE, N.D. -- It's a windy June morning, and two teams of National Resources Conservation Service employees are planting shelterbelts on the edge of a field that grew wheat last year. Rain ...
In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl ravaged crops and helped plunge the U.S. into an environmental and economic depression. Farmland in parts of Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas disappeared. After the ...
Many people in the upper Midwest grew up on farms or in homes surrounded by shelterbelts of trees to protect from the sun, snow, and wind. The trees also provide shelter and food for birds and ...
REYNOLDS, N.D. -- Jeff and Amy Sobolik have four children to put through college. So in 1994, the Soboliks launched Prairie Forest Products, a family business that cuts up trees, most of them from ...
The Great Plains are loosing trees. Specifically, shelterbelt trees, which were planted during the 1930s at the behest of President Franklin Roosevelt to help farms suffering from dust storms. Now ...
In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl ravaged crops and helped plunge the U.S. into an environmental and economic depression. Farmland in parts of Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas disappeared. After the ...