Show ROAD compassion PLANTS TREES FOR EROSION I 1 CONTROL black willows one hundred thousand of them are being planted by the state road commission along the streams of southern utah to form barriers streams thai are in the hab habit it of washing out banks and in many cases undermining der mining and destroying the highways according to grant R bowen landscape engineer tor for the commission the trees little fellows now but the black willow attain a height of sixta feet are planted on the banks at low water levels and when the streams are swollen the trees slow up the movement of the water and the streams then deposit the silt among the trees or behind them building solid banks and holding to their regular channels in the course of a few years long ribbons of green trees will run through the hot stretches of southern utah and the hope is that much of the beauty of the country can be reestablished established re making it attractive and desirable on the virgin river near the town of virgin trees are being planted to control the flood waters of the river A few years ago a washout of the highway occurred at this point that cost to repair the savings possible by this type of control can be estimated when we learn that the trees can be grown and planted for only 7 cents each the total cost for the planting of the trees now under way is only a small item compared to the cost of repairing a single highway washout ten thousand trees are arc being planted in circleville Cir cleville canyon five thousand in beaver canyon between deaver beaver and puffer lake and eight thousand along the washes that are crossed by the highway near moab rock and plank barriers have failed in this particular section tion in many cases the heavy construction has sunk in the quicksand that underlies the area and is other places where plank barriers have been erected the water has undermined the banks and eroded vast stretches of 0 ground including farms that have been established along the river banks trees are also being planted along the banks of washes that cross the highways in carbon grand duchesne Duches nc and uintah counties this is the leond project of its kind carried out by the state road com the first group of trees being planted last year the trees are started at the state road commission nursery at south and east when dug they are carefully wrapped and packed in boxes and the boxes labeled as to the place where the trees are to be planted then placed in cold storage until conditions are right for planting in the territory to which they have designated |