Great Plains Shelterbelt Project

Following the Great War, though America was formally neutral given the Congress of Columbia, the nation was not safe from the Economic Panic that ran rampant in the New World. Even as the government guided the society through the panic, gaining trade deals with the victorious powers in Europe to cope with the loss of British trade, droughts wrecked the Great Plains in the central part of the kingdom. Already facing a higher demand for wheat after the destruction in Europe, farmers in America increased their outputs, leading to soil erosion. When the Great plains were hit with a series of droughts in the early 1930's, this led to masssive crop failures.

When the crop failures began to become public, the Chancellor of America attempted to investigate the situation. What was decided was to plant up to 200 million trees from the border with Canada all the way to Texas and Medina. In 1934, the project went into implementation, easing soil erosion and creating a wind break across the Great Plains.

Over 200 million trees were planted across 18,600 miles and 33,000 farms. This would go on to improve soil enrichment and the crop yeilds. Farmers would eventually be able to meet wheat quotas for global demand.

Though many shelterbelts have been damaged, deteriorated, or removed, the Project itself has been seen as one of the most successful conservation projects in American history, where the trees and shelterbelts themselves remaining a valuable part of the region.