Living Snowfence Workshop

1
Welcome!

• Living Snowfence Workshop
• Washington-Oregon-Idaho
• October 5, 2005
• Lyn Townsend, Forester, West National Technology
  Support Center, NRCS, Portland, Oregon

2
What is a living snowfence?
3
Why living snowfences?

• They put snowdrifts where you want them!
• Provide wildlife habitat.
• Aesthetically superior to constructed snow
  fences.
• Effective at sequestering carbon on a per unit
  area basis when compared to the surrounding
  agricultural landscape.
• Effective and low maintenance if done right.

4
Where are snowfences applicable?

• Lets first look nationwide at last winters
  statistics
• then well look specifically at the
  intermountain area of the West

5
Winter 2004/2005
http//www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/index.html
6
Winter 2004/2005
7
Winter 2004/2005
8
Winter 2004/2005
9
Winter 2004/2005
10
Winter 2004/2005
11
Winter 2004/2005
12
Winter 2004/2005
13
Winter 2004/2005
14
Winter 2004/2005
15
Winter 2004/2005
16
Winter 2004/2005
17
Winter 2004/2005
18
Winter 2004/2005
19
Winter 2004/2005
20
Winter 2004/2005
21
Winter 2004/2005
22
Winter 2004/2005
23
Winter 2004/2005
24
Winter 2004/2005
25
Winter 2004/2005
26
Winter 2004/2005
27
Winter 2004/2005
28
Winter 2004/2005
29
Winter 2004/2005
30
Winter 2004/2005
31
Winter 2004/2005
32
Winter 2004/2005
33
Winter 2004/2005
34
Winter 2004/2005
35
Winter 2004/2005
36
Winter 2004/2005
37
Winter 2004/2005
38
Winter 2004/2005
39
Winter 2004/2005
40
Winter 2004/2005
41
Winter 2004/2005
42
Winter 2004/2005
43
Winter 2004/2005
44
Winter 2004/2005
45
Winter 2004/2005
46
Winter 2004/2005
47
Winter 2004/2005
48
Winter 2004/2005
49
Winter 2004/2005
50
Winter 2004/2005
51
Winter 2004/2005
52
Winter 2004/2005
53
Winter 2004/2005
54
Winter 2004/2005
55
Winter 2004/2005
56
Winter 2004/2005
57
Winter 2004/2005
58
Living snowfences work! Properly designed, they
are low maintenance and provide positive
environmental benefits! Again, welcome to the
workshop.