Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Tamariska" in Indonesian language version.
In the 1930s, when the federal government was experimenting with an array of projects to address bad times, tree-planting came into vogue as a tool to fight soil erosion here in the West and on the Great Plains. The shelterbelt program, as it was called, took trees from many parts of the world — including a hardy species from the Asian steppe, called tamarisk or salt cedar — and planted them by the millions.
