Show I I PLANT TREES IN A TO CHECK SNOW SNO ON SUMMIT Reforestation as a protection against floods and for the Indefinite continuance nce of f a great national r re resource source Is no new subject Now comes the Utah state road commission with the prop proposal sal that reforestation b be conducted for the benefit of roads East of the Great Lakes and of tho the Ohio citizens still remember the advIce advice advice ad ad- vice once commonly given to take the bush road in winter Snow had a habit of filling up tip the space between parallel rail fences on a roadside to the top of the rider rid rails ralls No matter how deep the fall the snow was not drifted in the bush Now comes J. J R. R Ellis assistant assistant assistant as as- chief engineer of the state road commission with a similar idea in mind in writing to J. J H. H Rutledge d forester at Ogden in relation to the thc Castlegate road Ve We have a very bad snow condition condi condi- tion on this road writes Mr Ellis in a letter forwarded recently The most d difficult snow to control is through tho the national forest and what Is called the Avint There are three miles of or road through the forest cause a a. great deal of trouble on account of the snow blowing out of the and falling faIling upon the road I believe this snow can be controlled by plantIng planting planting plant plant- ing trees on the hill down slope of the road One of the prime reasons for the snow causing so much trouble Is that the Ule area below the road has been burned over and all of the trees which would act as a snow have been destroyed I am asking you if it it would be possible for your forest service to plant a triple row of quaking aspen trees below the tho road where we should designate The only reason for tor asking for quaking aspen trees is that I suppose they are the fastest growing trees In the forest and since this is a very clamp damp place the year around I presume they would grow there thore You no doubt can advIse advise advise ad ad- vise whether or not I am right in my supposition concerning quaking as aspen aspen aspen as- as pen trees |