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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 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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "National forests of Michigan" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Huron National Forest; Huron–Manistee National ...
The News-Dispatch of Michigan City was established in 1938 through the merger of the Michigan City News and the Michigan City Evening Dispatch. [1] [2]In September 2007, Small Newspaper Group sold the La Porte Herald-Argus to Paxton Media Group.
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.
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Michigan National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Michigan on February 11, 1909 with 132,770 acres (537.3 km 2). On July 1, 1915 Marquette National Forest was added. On February 12, 1931 the name was changed to Marquette National Forest. The lands presently exist in Hiawatha National Forest. [1]