Trees are our Most Important Natural Resource We use their wood in so many ways.
In 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated a weather-belt project to combat the dust bowl in the Great Plains. The Prairie States Forestry Project planted 220 million trees by 1942 on the perimeters of farms.
These trees reduced the wind velocity and lessened evaporation of moisture from the soil. To this day this project stands as one of the greatest successes of government intervention to an environmental problem.
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Great picture and very interesting bit of history that I was not aware of! 🙂
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I thought it was very cool. FDR was one of my favorite presidents. I wish more people had read this. Thanks for that Linda.
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This looks like the woods where I use to ride horseback many moons ago. I love this memory and this pic. Thanks!
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This is not far from me on private property and as a matter of fact, they have horses!
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