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With a winter storm on its way, the Minnesota Department of Transportation uses many methods to help keep the roads clear. Drivers may not notice it but "living snow fences" along stretches of ...

Living snow fences (LSF) can mitigate blowing snow problems, reduce the cost of highway maintenance and improve highway safety. LSF are rows of trees or shrubs that perform the same function as wooden ...

During the month of May, MNDOT installed living snow fences at the Atwater and Kerkhoven bridges hoping to trap snow as it blows across fields, piling it up before it reaches a bridge or roadway.

300 'snow traps' identified MnDOT snowplow operators have identified more than 300 trouble spots, or “snow traps” across District 4, where snow fencing could improve winter travel conditions.

Statewide, Gullickson said that MnDOT has contracts with 300-350 farmers for living snow fences. Julie Dodge, the coordinator for snow fences in MnDOT’s District 6, which covers 11 counties in ...

However, fencing materials differ in quality and plastic fences designed as safety fences are not as heavy duty as those specifically designed as snow fences. Snow fences must be properly placed in ...

What that barrier does is, it slows down the snow and traps it, and it makes a drift before it gets onto the highway.” Crews are planting about 25,000 shrubs -- three different varieties ...

MnDOT awarded $13.7 million to install snow fences on I-94 The federal grant will fund the installation of 24 miles of snow fence across 38 sites along the 120-mile stretch of Interstate 94 ...

One of the first snow fences appeared about 15 years ago at the I-494/694/94 interchange in Maple Grove "where there was a real problem" with drifting, Barnard said.

Minnesota Department of Transportation workers in May 2021 work on planting 1,644 shrubs along U.S. Highway 12 near Atwater as part of work to create a living snow fence.

What’s happened since. Participation in the corn snow fence program grew to a high point of 72 acres in 2021, which cost the state just over $500,000.