Have you ever wished for instant vegetation that could retain snow on new construction sites to mitigate blowing snow and facilitate reestablishment of vegetation?
On
the dry, windswept high plains of the West, snow is the source of much of the
year’s precipitation.
And after vegetation is removed during highway construction or mining, wind blows that snow onto the roadway, causing icy roads, or back into the atmosphere.
After years of research, we’ve got the answer—Snow*Snake™ --an easy-to-install plastic netting that holds snow in place, while protecting fragile new plant growth from sun, drying winds, and even grazing animals.
Snow*Snake™
(patent pending) is a wire-frame-supported polyethylene mesh that acts like
natural vegetation to hold snow in place.
It does this by absorbing enough of the wind’s energy to prevent erosion of the snow surface in between the synthetic “roughness elements,” or “snow traps.”
The height of the individual snow traps ranges from 12- to 48-inches, and they can be deployed in continuous rows, or 4-foot-long traps can be spaced in a geometric pattern to simulate a natural vegetative landscape.
The polyethylene mesh is available in earth-tones such as tan or sagebrush-green to blend in with the environmental background.
The wire frames are anchored with 10-inch bridge spikes
driven through pre-formed loops, and the mesh is attached to the frames with hog
rings or by weaving the wire frames through the mesh before anchoring.
This configuration presents no collision hazard for errant vehicles.
Indeed, the snow retained by these devices provides an efficient energy attenuator, reducing the severity of slide-off-the-road crashes.
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