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WINDBREAK RENOVATION INITIATIVE

Since 2015, the North Dakota Forest Service (NDFS) Windbreak Renovation Initiative (WRI) has offered technical and financial assistance to private windbreak owners statewide to restore, protect and enhance their deteriorating windbreaks. Many of North Dakota's important forest resources are in need of maintenance, but not all of them are eligible for WRI. Many tree plantings block the wind and yet are still not windbreaks. For WRI, we define a windbreak as a system of multiple trees and shrubs primarily designed and engineered to modify the flow of wind.

Most Likely a Windbreak:​

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  • L-shaped or U-shaped tree planting surrounding a rural residence or farmyard consisting of multiple rows of trees and shrubs with each row being the same species within the row, but the rows being different from one another.

  • Long, linear tree plantings across a farm field, usually from field edge to field edge. May be a system of single rows or one multiple-row planting.

  • Living snow fence parallel to a roadway.

If your trees don't fit into these categories, fear not! NDFS offers Technical Assistance to owners of all types of forests. Even if your trees aren't a windbreak and therefore are not eligible for WRI, we still want to help you maintain and protect them.

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