{"id":15859,"date":"2012-04-24T08:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15859"},"modified":"2012-04-24T08:21:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:21:33","slug":"highways-can-be-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=15859","title":{"rendered":"Highways Can Be Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past few weeks have been incredibly exciting. My intern crew and I got to tour a highway construction site that is being built on BLM land. The highway is going to make the ride from Carson City, NV to Reno, NV incredibly faster, but there is no telling when the project will be completed. The construction of the highway is quite impressive with multiple bridges filling the gaps between various hills. My team was lead by a Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)\u00a0Civil Engineer, who explained the project and answered any questions. I actually got to drive a vehicle over the uncompleted highway and bridges, which was nerve-racking to say the least. The driving was exhilarating, but became scary when my mentor told me that one of the support pillars for the bridge-seen\u00a0in the photo below-fell\u00a0over in the past.\u00a0 Also, there were extremely high winds on the bridge, which made controlling our hard hats a very difficult task.<\/p>\n

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View of the new bridge from the valley below<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

The construction of the bridge involves a restoration component, where NDOT must develop a seed mix to restore the bare soil after all the havoc of the construction process is finished. I got to see the vegetation restoration progress by viewing hillsides\u00a0that have been sprayed with a hydroseed mix\u00a0at various points in the past\u00a0ten years or so. I was glad to see\u00a0a robust plant community\u00a0that had developed on a hillside in just seven years after\u00a0the hydroseed was applied after the construction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0-Austin Rutherford<\/div>\n

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