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The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program (simplified Chinese: 三北防护林; traditional Chinese: 三北防護林; pinyin: Sānběi Fánghùlín), also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert [1] and provide ...
The Great Plains Shelterbelt was allowed under the 1924 Clarke–McNary Act and was carried out by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). [2] Project headquarters were in Lincoln, Nebraska, [6] and Raphael Zon served as the technical director. The U.S. Forest Service and Civilian Conservation Corps assisted. [7] "The Shelterbelt Program of ...
The district encompasses 215 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Michigan City. It developed between about 1860 and 1963, and includes examples of Italianate , Greek Revival , Queen Anne , Colonial Revival , and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture.
The following is a list of state forests in the U.S. state of Michigan. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources manages the largest state forest system in the nation (2.8 million acres (16,000 km 2)), administered by the Forest Resources Division. In literature describing recreational uses of state forest lands, six state forests are ...
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The Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) provides assistance to non-industrial private forest owners by encouraging and enabling them for long-term forest management. The program provides landowners with information on development and multi-source planning in an effort to manage private forests for goods and services. Increased economic output ...
A satellite image of the Sahara, the world's largest hot desert and third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. Desert greening is the process of afforestation or revegetation of deserts for ecological restoration (biodiversity), sustainable farming and forestry, but also for reclamation of natural water systems and other ecological systems that support life.
Forest Township is one of fourteen townships in Clinton County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 759 (a tiny decline of 760 from 2010 [4] The township was named for the large amount of timber it contained at the time it was organized. [5]) and it contained 323 housing units.