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- noun Plural form of
shelterbelt .
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Up to 10 rows wide, shelterbelts, like standing corn, require a drive.
Where Pheasants Hide 2003
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Encroachment by advancing sands from deserts or coastal dunes can be controlled by rows of trees, called shelterbelts.
Chapter 6 1996
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Depending on species selection, shelterbelts may also provide fodder.
Chapter 6 1996
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Other requests are for drylands forestry, nursery operations, plantation management, shelterbelts, soil conservation, and specialist skills related to these areas.
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If large areas are to be protected, parallel shelterbelts should be planted.
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