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Invasive Species/Vegetation Management

Key Resources

Listed below are research, documents and reports pertinent to invasive species and vegetation management.  If you would like to suggest additional research, documents, or reports on this topic, please submit a short description to AASHTO (including any pertinent links) on the Share Info with AASHTO form.

• AASHTO Resources
  • AASHTO and FHWA Webinar, “Bees, Butterflies, and other Pollinators: Vegetation Management” (July 2015)#mce_temp_url#
  • Guidelines for Vegetation Management, 1st Edition (2011)
  • AASHTO’s Compendium of Environmental Stewardship Practices, Policies, and Procedures. In particular: Chapter 3: Designing for Environmental Stewardship in Construction & Maintenance, Chapter 4: Construction Practices for Environmental Stewardship, Chapter 9: Roadside Vegetation Management

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• Administrative Orders
  • Presidential Memorandum -- Creating a Federal Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators (2014)
  • Supporting the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators (Council on Environmental Quality, 2014)

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• FHWA Resources
  • FHWA Pollinator Website: resources on pollinator-friendly practices in roadside vegetation management for state DOTs and other transportation agencies and roadside managers including literature review, case studies, and state DOT practices.
  • Vegetation Management: An Ecoregional Approach (FHWA 2015)
  • Roadside Revegetation: An Integrated Approach to Establishing Native Plants: This website contains four integrated and interlinked modules dedicated to explaining the art and science of roadside revegetation
  • A Manager’s Guide to Roadside Revegetation Using Native Plants (Oct. 2007)
  • Guidance Implementing Executive Order on Invasive Species (1999) and Guidance on 23 U.S.C. §329 on the Control of Noxious Weeds and Aquatic Noxious Weeds and Establishment of Native Species (2006), Federal Highway Administration

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• Other Federal Agency Resources
  • Dangerous Travelers: Controlling Invasive Plants along America’s Roadways – video of the U.S. Forest Service and Federal Highway Administration.
  • Conceptual Design for a National Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) System for Invasive Plants (Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds 2003)

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• Transportation Research Board
  • NCHRP Synthesis 341 Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management
  • NCHRP Synthesis 363: Control of Invasive Species (February 2007)

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• Other Resources
  • Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, “Roadsides” web page
  • Invasive Species in Transportation Rights of Way: "You Wouldn't Plant Kudzu, Would You?"– Center for Transportation and the Environment Web Cast on Invasive Species (10/15/02)

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