Tree Planting Along Highways 



FORESTRY SECTION 

 Michigan Quarterly Section 



Many of the roads in the state can be greatly 

 beautified by the phi nt ing of trees and the value of 

 adjoining property increased thereby. While the 

 state will doubtless ultimately see that our highways 

 are properly planted, it is often to the advantage of 

 landowners to plant trees immediately so as to secure 

 early results. An Act passed by the last session of 

 the Legislature, Act No. 36 of the Public Acts of 

 1919, authorizes the State Highway Commissioner and 

 the State Board of Agriculture to select and plant 

 ornamental and nut-bearing trees along highways 

 upon which state reward has been paid or earned, 

 the trees for planting to be supplied by the Agricul- 

 tural College or the Public Domain Commission. The 

 AH provides that in no case shall such trees be plant- 

 ed except with the consent of the owner of the ad- 

 joining property, and that the Highway Commission- 

 er shall establish rules and regulations for the uni- 

 form planting of trees under the Act. The Act also 

 provides that any owner of land bordering upon a 

 highway upon which State reward has not been paid 

 may plant approved ornamental or nut-bearing trees 

 along the line of the highway and shall receive an- 

 nually a credit of five cents upon his highway repair 

 tax for a period not to exceed five years for each 

 tree so planted and in good growing condition not 

 less than six feet high and not less than 20 or more 

 than 40 feet apart. 



The Michigan Agricultural College and the Public 



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