- City:
- Willow, OK
- Site Type:
- Forestry and Agriculture, Erosion Control
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Partially Extant
Description
The first tree of the Great Plains Shelterbelt, an Austrian pine, was planted at the Ed Curtis farm near Willow, Oklahoma, on March 18, 1935. The state forester of Oklahoma, George Phillips, did the honors.
The Great Plains Shelterbelt was designed to mitigate damage from the 1930s dust storms.
Source notes
Wikipedia, Great Plains Shelterbelt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains_Shelterbelt), accessed Aug. 2022.
"Fighting the Drouth" Popular Mechanics, October 1934.
Site originally submitted by Barbara Pendleton on August 15, 2022.
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