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 ...

Q. I have been noticing farmers removing shelterbelts from their land. Last summer, I witnessed the removal of an entire grove full of magnificent, old (and still healthy) trees. I could be mistaken, ...

Great Falls' residents boast about living in the fourth windiest city in the country. And while we make jokes about the level of gusts we endure, the reality is the wind impacts our daily lives. It ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Shelterbelts are a big deal in the Upper Midwest. I knew that before I wrote my most recent column, and know it even better now. The column - which generated a fair amount of ...

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 ...

A million shelterbelt trees were to be planted on farms in the area of Larimore, N.D., 75 years ago. One hundred miles of them would be placed in 10-row plantings on farms in the area, the Herald ...

CLAREMONT, Minn. — Flat Ripley Township farmland spreads out in every direction from Steve Selthun’s driveway. Snow makes the area look desolate, save for the farmplaces that sprout from the fertile ...

Decades of research into the role of shelterbelts in beefing up the bottom line of farm businesses has been collated in a new report. Industry heavyweights including Meat and Livestock Australia and ...

My field assistants and I studied breeding bird populations in 16 sites made up of shelterbelts and four sites including sections of woody draws in S-central North Dakota from 1985-1989. We documented ...

Twenty years ago, Will Johnson's farm in the New South Wales central west was a dust bowl, after the previous owner stripped the property of its trees. Sheep farmer Will Johnson has planted 15,000 ...