Garfield County News | 1950-06-01 | Page 4 | Escalante Men Protect Farms From Erosion

o I MEN FARMS FROM EROSION Six neighboring under the leadership of Morris Shirts have pooled both money and labor in an to turn back the heavy summer floods in the Al-vey The method they are using is the Installation of an cable across the base of the large bends where floods have carried acres of fertile land Cedar trees With the natural foliage left Intact are wired securely to the The trees turn the heft of the but silt water by passes to fill In the area behind the cable where trees and grass will be Over feet of such were Installed at a total cost of This work will give protection to the farms along the stream for about one Junies M. local representative of the Soli Conservation reports that ibis Is the largest project of Its kind to be completed In