Environmental Research for ROW Management: The updates from a long-term vegetation management study indicate best practices for managing ROW habitats.

Results addressed management practices and their apparent impact on vegetation, breeding birds, pollinators and ground beetles; and generally favored the use of selective herbicide applications for biodiversity management over mechanical treatments or nonselective herbicide applications. SGL 33 and SGL 103 sites managed with herbicides were either comparable or more beneficial to breeding bird communities in terms of productivity and nesting success than areas to which mechanical treatments were applied. The State Game Lands 33 (SGL 33) research project is the longest continuous study of vegetation management practices and their environmental impact throughout utility rights of way (ROWs). [Extracted from the article]

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