The Sustainable Landscape Collaboratory presents:

Speaker Dr. David Vail, Professor of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney

Beginning in the 1930s, farmers, ranchers, and agricultural scientists met informally to discuss designing protective bulwarks against growing environmental disasters. New conservation strategies including planting trees as windbreaks and shelterbelts would come to characterize a farm-based conservation civil defense through a series of climate, weather, soil, disease, drought, and pesticide studies conducted in the 1950s and 1960s. These trees of defense represented a significant embrace of alternative agricultural strategies, moving their efforts from a rescue science to semi-permanent environmental fortifications.

Discussant Bill Romme, professor emeritus of forestry and fire ecology at CSU.

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