Also available:.Also available in a video compilation: 50 for 50: Volume 1, Tape 1: Golden Oldies.

Director, Evelyn Cherry ; producer, Evelyn Cherry ; script, Evelyn Cherry ; camera, Lawrence Cherry ; sound, G.A. Thurling ; editing, Evelyn Cherry, Lawrence Cherry ; music, Maurice Blackburn.

Narrator, Tommy Tweed.

Recorded 1943.

Prairie farmers often ruthlessly cut down the few trees that stood in the paths of their plows. Too late, it was realized that without these windbreaks the top soil became even more vulnerable to erosion. The Dominion Department of Agriculture experimental station at Indian Head, Saskatchewan, cultivated acres of young trees for distribution to farmers.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).