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The Green Wall of China
URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/greenwall.html

Description:
This 2003 article from Wired magazine discusses a tree-planting plan "known as the Green Great Wall — a 2,800-mile network of forest belts designed to stop the sands" which have been created by desertification of land near China's Gobi desert.

Author:
Ratliff, Evan

Publisher:
Wired Digital, Inc.

Extra Keywords
Beijing anti-desertification deforestation

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Desertification
Deserts -- China
Tree planting -- China

LII Database Information:
Record 9557 created by Maria Brandt on 04/12/2004
Last modification on 04/13/2004
Published: 04/12/2004  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/9557