First Shelterbelt in the United States
Near Mangum, Oklahoma
http://blogoklahoma.us/place.aspx?id=397

> During the 1930s severe drought plagued the states in the great plains and deepened the depression. High winds caused dust storms which blackened the sky. In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt initiated a program to help stabilize the blowing soil and put people to work.

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