Show I The Passing Passi g of the Flier I A Af 1 I f n y c f i ft I S. Trees Unharmed As Modern Auto Roads Replace Old Wagon Trails i o R c t fat p. p 02 4 t a t LLA o t 54 55 S 5 S r J 1 N A tc t 11 l on nn the steep aona a ona road mid at nt left Ift left not lIot a scratch lell on the trees tr'S It H. at lit right shows s how the trees tretS Ie protected from front flying boulders by bv n a blanket of saplings I IJ By Br BrE SEA E Venice Service I t NATIONAL ATIO AL FOREST FOR FOR- FOREST EST Calif alif Aug Aup 29 The 29 The old wagon roads built by pioneers arc are being converted Into Inlo modern mo mo- motor motor motor tor highways s in to this tourist resort of California And in the process not a tree Is being harmed farmed Last year jear when congress appropriated appropriated appropriated OOOO for for the neon neon- recon recon-I of Yosemite's mountain roads road some of or the timers old-timers feared the destruction of timber attending the new road work ork But they reckoned not with Ith W. W B B. Lewis Lc superintendent of or Yosemite national park whose engineering experiences have taught him much not to be found In text books bools fh Th first work undertaken was the reconstruction of the Wa- Wa Wawona WaWona a wona grade a stretch of narrow mountain road two tl and n. n half miles long long- situated between the tho floor of ot Yosemite alley valley and In Inspiration In- In Point This bit of ot road because of its steepness has given given given en tho the motorist more grief than any an other road in Yosemite na national na- na tlona I park Before Defore construction was begun Lewis ordered ordred the protection prot of every mature tree lining the new road roid from Injury Injury- by blasting All trees were guarded against flying fI Ing rocks Tocks with a buffer bufter of ot rush I and young oung saplings Several months have elapsed since tho the reconstruction work I was Inaugurated Thousands of mo mo- motorists pa passed and bEn been bE- bE n im Im- impressed Impressed im- im impressed pressed by the action on of ot the na national na- na national park service in preserving pr the trees treos along the road 00 00 |