Eventually, I decided on an area of lush turf, between two gorse bushes that would serve as windbreaks.

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Windbreaks are erected to protect the emerging seedlings from damage and to help in the stabilization of the dune.

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Nor do farmers, many of them rock-ribbed Republicans, readily acknowledge that the windbreaks and other conservation projects started by the CCC helped preserve the land from devastating erosion.

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