Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-12-09 | Page 12 | Siberian Land Threatened

Siberian Land Threatened. Extensive tracts of land in Siberia are threatened by the encroachment of the great Gobi desert, and a plan has now been drawn up for a series of forest ramparts to hold back the salt and drift, Tho only effective defense, according to the report of agronomists agrono-mists Bent to survey the region is in tree belts at least two miles broad. It Is proposed to plant one of these from Samara to the Canplan sea, while otherB are recommended extending ex-tending in intervals of about -10 miles right up to tho Chinese frontier.