Government Program under Hoover for planting Aspen and Pine??

[HootOwlTreeCo]

Had a customer in southern Indiana with a large grove of White Pine & Aspen trees. He didnt claim it as fact, but said he heard from the previous owner they were planted because of a financial incentive from the US government years ago. He said one of our presidents (maybe hoover or roosevelt) loved the trees in Colorado and wanted them across the whole country. So financial incentives were created to plant pine and aspen. Is anyone aware of this program, who it was under, and more of the specifics from it? Not that important, but really peaked our interest! THANKS

 

[ATH]

Maybe a Roosevelt program in response to the Dust Bowl? There were several of those. Are the trees 80 years old? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains_Shelterbelt

There have been a lot of other government funded tree planting programs since: CRP, EQIP, FIP, FLIP, SIP, for for example ... not to mention state level programs or even some privately funded programs (one example: Mead Paper in southern Ohio provided trees to landowners for reforestation hoping they could one day harvest them to supply the paper mill)