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  • noun Plural form of shelterbelt.

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Examples

  • These included forests primarily established for protection purposes, such as shelterbelts to stop the encroachment of coastal and desert sand dunes and to diminish the force of strong winds.

    2. Experiences with Casuarinas 1984

  • I said it each time I bogged down in some kind of unidentifiable high-plains brush, or whenever I shouldered my way through head-high shelterbelts.

    The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting 2008

  • I said it each time I bogged down in some kind of unidentifiable high-plains brush, or whenever I shouldered my way through head-high shelterbelts.

    Deep in the Heart of Roosterland 2008

  • Sprawling playa bottoms are pocked with feedlots, mountains of hay bales, and farm machinery rusting in tangled shelterbelts.

    The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting 2008

  • Birds lurk along the edges, in the boundary lines formed by fencerows and ditches, and in the wider bands of straight-line cover formed by shelterbelts and buffer strips.

    Where Pheasants Hide 2003

  • Up to 10 rows wide, shelterbelts, like standing corn, require a drive.

    Where Pheasants Hide 2003

  • Encroachment by advancing sands from deserts or coastal dunes can be controlled by rows of trees, called shelterbelts.

    Chapter 6 1996

  • Depending on species selection, shelterbelts may also provide fodder.

    Chapter 6 1996

  • Other requests are for drylands forestry, nursery operations, plantation management, shelterbelts, soil conservation, and specialist skills related to these areas.

    4: Multipurpose trees 1996

  • If large areas are to be protected, parallel shelterbelts should be planted.

    7. Planting trees outside woodlots and forests 1993

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