Also see The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914 by David Moon - Oxford University Press, 2013 where the Saratov shelter belts are described as being planted in the 1870/1880's era.
Phillip PHILLIP BARNETT SERVER MANAGER 200 GRAY'S INN ROAD LONDON WC1X 8XZ UNITED KINGDOM T +44 207 430 4474 F E phillip.barn...@itn.co.uk WWW.ITN.CO.UK Please consider the environment. Do you really need to print this email? ________________________________________ From: malenki <o...@malenki.ch> Sent: 25 January 2014 05:57 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Details about wooded belt in Saratov Oblast? On 25.01.2014 00:08, osm....@0sg.net wrote: > First of all, my sincere thanks go to everyone who sent a reply to my > question. :) > > Am 24.01.2014 07:22, schrieb Ilya Zverev - zve...@textual.ru: > > Hi! Sadly there is no English version of that wiki page, but you > > can read about that and other forest belts using google > > translation: http://tinyurl.com/windforest . > > Ilya, your link was crucial for me in understanding what those forest > belts are all about. Thanks! I'd like to thank for that link too. Some years ago I read in one of Bernhard Grzimek's¹ books (from ~1965) about big wood belts planned in the Soviet Union. He believed that this was a good idea (I too) and that the descendants of the planters would be thankful to their ancestors. But doing research at that time I could not find nothing about these woods. Now I have to dig through the books to add another source to that Russian Wikipedia page. Regards malenki ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Grzimek _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Please Note: Any views or opinions are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Independent Television News Limited unless specifically stated. This email and any files attached are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify postmas...@itn.co.uk Please note that to ensure regulatory compliance and for the protection of our clients and business, we may monitor and read messages sent to and from our systems.
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