Shelterbelt Project Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC 806

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Minutes and resolution relating to the establishment of a forest research center in North Dakota, copies of Forestry News Digest, newspaper clippings, and other documents, concerning Prairie States Forestry Project (also known as Great Plains Shelterbelt Project), of U.S. Forest Service, which was responsible for planting shelterbelts and windbreaks in North Dakota and the Great Plains. Persons represented include F.E. Cobb, director for North Dakota.

Dates

1934-1956.

Creator

Prairie States Forestry Project (U.S.) (Organization)

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Institute.

Copyrights

Copyrights to this collection are held by the Institute.

History

The project was also known as the Great Plains Shelterbelt project. It was a project designed to create windbreaks in the Great Plains beginning in 1934 as a result of the Dust Bowl. The project stretched from Canada to northern Texas and was estimated to cost $75 million over 12 years. The project was eventually transferred to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and has continued at least through 2010 where much of the work being done is maintenance and establishment of new trees.