HANDBOOK ON CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE SECTION 5.3- SNOW MANAGEMENT PREPARED BY:

Snow management on the prairies is an activity that receives only limited'and scattered attention from research, technical and educational units of the federal and provincial governments or from private individuals. The potential for utilizing the snow resource I has never been fully assessed. It is often said that l'manipulation of snow cover offers the greatest potential for increasing available water for dryland crops on Canadian prairiesu (Rennie 1979b). Rennie maintains that snow manipulation offers the greatest potential, short of irrigation, to provide additional water to increase production on stubble land. NHRI Contribution No. 90001 The factors that affect the magnitude of the snow resource on the prairies that might be manipulated beneficially depend on the amount of snow that fallstits distribution and the duration of