Heavy snowfall with big piles of accumulation on trees and around a home on a hillside - Vawiley/Getty Images If you're a skier, you've probably noticed the plastic mesh fences which are often set up ...

WILLMAR, Minn. - For as long as many can remember, winter winds and blowing snow have made a curve on Minnesota Highway 67 west of Granite Falls a problem area for motorists. Those days may be over - ...

Blowing and drifting snow can increase the cost of highway maintenance and create hazardous driving conditions. These problems occur when snow is lifted off the ground by wind and transported across ...

Celebrated Wyoming sculptor Chris Navarro has used a giant wind turbine blade to make a snow fence sculpture at the Wyoming ...

Even though the weather has been unseasonably mild, winter is in the air and snow is inevitable. Rural landowners can be better prepared to deal with drifting snow if they erect snow fences, according ...

Recent snow storms provided the Minnesota Department of Transportation with the first significant snow and wind event to test the structural and vegetative snow fences that were installed along ...

MOORHEAD — Spring is on the way, but transportation officials are still thinking about snow. The Minnesota Department of Transportation wants to partner with more farmers and landowners through its ...

Kenneth M. Hinkel and John K. Hurd, Jr. In autumn 1997, a 2.2 km-long, 4 m-high snow fence was constructed east of the coastal village of Barrow, Alaska. A large drift develops each winter on the ...

As the great March snowstorm bears down on New Jersey, one key protector will be missing in some parts of the state -- snow fence. A mild winter is one of the reasons that fence has come down already ...