“Towns Urge to Aid County in Keeping Roadside Woodland” from the February 11, 1944 Door County Advocate
Towns Urge to Aid County in Keeping Roadside Woodland
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Resolutions Passed by Board at Close of February Session
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Preservation of roadside woods by townships and villages, as well as the county, was urged in a resolution passed at the closing February session of the Door County board of supervisors here Friday.
Previously, the board had allotted the highway department $5,000 for a fund to draw on if necessary to obtain such strips along county and state roads to prevent their being cut, but it is expected that most property owners will co-operate wholeheartedly in this movement by granting easements in return for a suggested lowering of assessments on these tracts and realization that they will directly benefit their lands by providing protection from snow drifts and helping maintain the water table level.
Easements granted to the county or towns would permit the latter to care for the woods in such a manner as to make their use most efficient.
Would Plant New Strips
Besides preserving existing roadside woods, the action also aims to acquire rights to strips now barren so that trees can be restored where need for protection of the highway is already found to be acute.
Eventually such strips would save the county large sums of money in snow removal, not to mention keeping and improving roadside beauty that is an asset to this peninsula’s important tourist industry.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive