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Posted by Lloyd IA on September 29, 2024, 10:23 pm, in reply to "Re: Pictures/pawpaws"
Shelterbelts are almost a necessity for living in or near the Great Plains. I guess you would call it a mega-sized windbreak. Several acres around a farmstead is devoted to one. On the north and west sides to protect from the winter winds.
Outer couple rows shrubs, then 20 to 50 feet open as a snow catch area. Then several rows of deciduous trees such as bur oaks or hackberry, black walnut, etc. Then a few rows of conifers like ponderosa pine, concolor fir, black hills spruce, redcedar.
It is not bad working outside around zero degrees in the sun with no wind. But step outside the protected area into 30 or 40 mph winds and it is a different story.
Also we almost never have vertical snow out here, it comes down sideways driven by the wind. A 1" snowfall blows along the ground until it finds something that slows the wind down, then that 1" snow has created a ten foot tall drift.
Shelterbelts are necessary and also provide a haven for all the critters to overwinter in.
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