In article me.nl, Ge
Nidee writes
"Sue White" schreef in bericht
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For weather we had a succession of weak fronts, with none of those
boring blue-sky days!
Sue

Spectacular shots, Sue.
What are those dark horizontal stripes on some slopes? Especially on pic
no.4...


Rockfall/avalanche fences. If you see them close up they're massive.

The medium-term objective is to get trees or scrub to grow on the steep
slopes wherever possible, because they look better and need less
maintenance. Until the reafforestation programme can show results,
fences protect the young trees and also the village underneath.

There's a short paper in English he
http://www.interpraevent.at/palm-cms...tionen/Tagungs
beitraege/2000_2_29.pdf

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Sue ]