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Official State Soil: Holdrege
September 13th

Wind erosion was a problem in Holdrege, Nebraska, when settlers from Sweden arrived in the 1880s. The Swedes planted straight rows of trees to protect the soil and transformed the once-barren landscape. This pattern still marks the landscape today.