A total of 54,000 seedlings, including hardwood trees, conifers and shrubs, were planted in Allen, Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, Williams and Wood counties. Since 1977, more than 700 row miles of windbreaks have been planted as part of the program, which is open to landowners in a total of 17 Ohio counties where soil erosion from wind is a special problem.
Landowners participate in the program voluntarily.
Among the species planted in the Northwest Ohio Windbreaks Program this spring were arborvitae, white pine, Norway spruce, Austrian pine, pin oak, English oak, silky dogwood, black chokeberry, European black alder, American cranberry bush, blackhaw, American plum and Sargent crabapple.