Shelter Belts

Die "Agricultural Adjustment Administration" ließ in den Jahren 1935 - 1942 von N-Dakota bis zur Grenze Oklahoma/Texas Waldschutzstreifen anlegen.

 

Vorgehen:

  • pro Quadratmeile mind. je zwei meilenlange Schutzstreifen in O-W-Richtung.
  • diese waren bis zu 10 Baumreihen dick
  • schnellwachsende Arten in der Mitte
  • nach außen 1-2 Reihen Nadelbäume, dann Sträucher

 



Windbreak

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Aerial view of field windbreaks in North Dakota.

A windbreak or shelterbelt is a plantation usually made up of one or more rows of trees or shrubs planted in such a manner as to provide shelter from the wind and to protect soil from erosion. They are commonly planted around the edges of fields on farms. If designed properly, windbreaks around a home can reduce the cost of heating and cooling and save energy. Windbreaks are also planted to help keep snow from drifting onto roadways and even yards. Other benefits include providing habitat for wildlife and in some regions the trees are harvested for wood products.

A further use for a shelterbelt is to screen a farm from a main road or motorway. This improves the farm landscape by reducing the visual incursion of the motorway, reducing noise from the traffic and providing a safe barrier between farm animals and the road.

Major shelterbelt projects

Afforestation projects involving large-scale planting of shelterbelts have been more than once proposed by governments as a way to reduce soil erosion and improve microclimate in otherwise treeless agricultural areas.

"We will defeat the drought, too!". A late-1940s Soviet poster showing Joseph Stalin in his marshal's uniform over a map showing forest strips to be planted in the steppes of southern Russia.
  • USA: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Great Plains Shelterbelt" WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30,233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for 18,600 miles.[1]
  • China: The Green Wall of China, a project intended to plant 4,800 km of shelterbelts across Northern China by 2074.

Smaller scale shelterbelt projects have been proposed and implemented elsewhere, e.g. in India.[3]

See also

 


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