国民政府农林部西北防沙林景泰林场述论

Jingtai Forest Farm,Northwest Forest Barrier for Sand of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Period of Republic of China

1945年,国民政府行政院农林部林业司在一些林学家提出的营造大西北防风防沙林,以防止西北各地沙漠内侵设想的基础上,在中国的西北、华北、东北部分地区筹设林场,组织实施防沙造林工程。1947年12月,西北防沙林景泰林场在南京成立,随即在甘肃省兰州市和景泰县成立办事处,确定场址,进行勘测和调查,宣传普及生态观念,开辟苗圃,培育树苗,栽植树木,实施造林防沙工程。因经费短缺,自然条件艰苦及得不到有关部门的实质支持,林场苦苦支撑,不到两年便黯然收场,被人民政府接收。该林场是中国最早的防治北方沙漠南侵的国家工程,是当代"三北"防护林工程建设的最早尝试,也是甘肃省防沙造林事业设立专业机构之始。

In 1945, based on a proposal by many forest scientists on planting forests barriers for sand and wind to prevent desert southward invasion from north China, the Administrative Department of the Republic of China planned to establish forest farms in some areas in northwestern, northern and northeastern China, organized and implemented the project for prevention sand and wind. Jingtai Forest Farm for sand prevention in northwestern China was established in Nanking in Dec. 1947. Then the working personal of the farm set up agencies in Lanzhou City and Jingtai County of Gansu Province, searched and determined the site of the farm, investigated desert, psammophyte and forestland, popularized and propagandized ecological ideas, reclaimed nursery, nurtured seedlings, planted trees, started sand-barriers project. Due to funds shortage, poor natural conditions and lack of support by relevant departments, the farm operated with difficulty. For less than two years, it ended in gloom and was received by the government. Jingtai Forest Farm was the first national project of China to prevent the invasion of northern deserts, and was the rudiment and the first try of the Three-North Shelterbelt, and also was the beginning of specialized institutions for controlling desertification in Gansu Province.