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Living Snowfence Workshop
5 October 2005; Spokane, WA
A living snowfence is a windbreak designed and established to reduce undesirable effect of strong winds and heavy snow. This workshop featured the latest USDA-NRCS "Twin-row" design.
When the pioneers settled the treeless areas of the Northwest, they needed trees to provide shade and to give protection from the wind. Most farm and ranch planting used fast-growing trees such as Lombardy poplar, eastern cottonwood, and black locust. Windbreak design was simple. The common practice was to plant one to six rows of a single species on a rather close spacing. The success of planting depended on the owner's judgment regarding species, spacing, location, and the amount and kind of care needed.
Today, Northwest farmers and ranchers are still planting windbreaks. The difference is they now can follow recommendations giving them high assurance of satisfactory windbreak performance. Much information has been gained through research on how design, location, and proper tree species affect windbreak efficiency. This workshop is designed to provide information on the most current Living Snowfence technologies, planning, and design, location and proper tree species for Eastern Washington , Eastern Oregon and Southern Idaho.
Co-Sponsors:
- Washington State University Cooperative Extension
- Washington Association of Conservation Districts
- Oregon Association of Conservation Districts
- USDA National Agroforestry Center
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Oregon Department of Transportation
- Washington Department of Transportation
Click on the links below to view the presentations. Please allow anywhere from 2 to 8 minutes for each video to load. Once the video has begun to play another 5 to 10 minutes must pass before you will be able to use the control panel and table of contents to move around in the presentation.
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Welcome; Lyn Townsend, NRCS |
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| Giving Birth to Living Snowfences; Richard Straight, USDA Agroforestry Center |
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| Living Snowfences: Design for Success; Gary Kuhn, NRCS Plant Materials Specialist |
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| Living Snow Fences ; Dan Ogle, Idaho NRCS Plant Materials Specialist |
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| Athena, Oregon Living Snowfence Demonstration Project ; Craig Ziegler, Oregon NRCS |
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| Davenport & Anatone Living Snowfences: Works in Progess; Dennis Robinson, NRCS |
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| Perspectives from Local Cooperating Agency Personnel & Landowners; Panel Discussion |
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| Field Trip to Reinbold Living Snowfence Site, Davenport, WA |
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