Soil and tree experts are well aware of the important role that trees play in controlling wind erosion. The question is, do ...

BISMARCK – Seen from the air, much of North Dakota's forest grows in rows laid out on the land as if by a ruler. That legacy forest of tree rows and shelterbelts is getting old and decrepit, leaving ...

"Alley cropping” is the agricultural practice of planting rows – or alleys – of trees in fields of crops. According to a new study by an international, multidisciplinary research team led by the ...

FARGO — Have you heard of the “Dirty Thirties?” That’s how my parents and their generation referred to the 1930s when the windswept soil of the treeless Midwest plains turned the region into the ...

BISMARCK -- Seen from the air, much of North Dakota's forest grows in rows laid out on the land as if by a ruler. That legacy forest of tree rows and shelterbelts is getting old and decrepit, leaving ...

To help battle wind erosion in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl, farmers and ranchers looked toward nature. At the time, President Franklin D. Roosevelt held discussions with his secretary of ...

My daughter’s question, as we sorted through scrap metal, was a legitimate one. Why were trees growing up through carefully rolled, rusted wire? Why were there tractor parts, for tractors no one had ...

What kind of an effect do trees have on aerosol particle concentrations in cities? Modelling carried out at the University of Helsinki revealed that the air was cleanest on the street level with three ...