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Managing Land for Habitat Biodiversity

Successful herbicide programs and management techniques help enhance beneficial wildlife habitat.

Integrated Vegetation Management - an industry best practice

Utility ROW Management: IVM and Cost Efficiency

Utility ROW Management: IVM and Cost Efficiency

Industry leaders Lew Payne and Dennis Fallon explain how environmental benefits achieved thorugh IVM enable energy companies and their vegetation management partners to enhance not only biodiversity but also cost efficiency.

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Utility ROW Management: How to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Utility ROW Management: How to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Fuel and oil usage produces harmful carbon emissions. Industry experts Steve Hilbert and Travis Rogers explain how switching from a mow-heavy approach to an IVM-based strategy can reduce a program's carbon footprint.

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State Gamelands 33: a lasting partnership

State Gamelands 33: A Lasting Partnership

Travis Rogers, market development specialist with Corteva Agriscience, discusses the company’s partnership with the State Game Lands 33 Research Project, and how IVM with herbicides is the best method of managing vegetation.

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Integrated Vegetation Management: an industry best practice

Integrated Vegetation Management: an industry best practice

Phil Charlton, executive director of the Utility Arborist Association, outlines what makes Integrated Vegetation Management a best management practice in utility vegetation management.

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State Gamelands 33: First Energy - a founding cooperator

State Gamelands 33: First Energy - a founding cooperator

Shawn Standish, Transmission Vegetation Program Manager with FirstEnergy Corp., discusses how he adapts the learnings from the State Gamelands 33 Research Project to FirstEnergy's rights-of-way management program.

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Success Stories

Read how vegetation managers across the country and across the industry are successfully incorporating habitat management into their vegetation management programs.

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Law of the Land

As field-tested results continue to reveal optimum vegetation management strategies for abiding by North Dakota’s noxious weed law, industry professionals are working to promote best practices for the benefit of today’s landowners.

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Brush Control: Safeguarding the Environment and Your Bottom Line

Learn how Integrated Vegetation Management practices can provide economic and environmental benefits to improve brush control programs.

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Environmental ROW Research: Best Practices for Tree-resistant Cover Types

Learn how effectively establishing tree-resistant cover types can benefit the environment and electrical transmission reliability.

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Pennsylvania State Game Lands 33 Research Project

Since its inception in 1952, the State Game Lands 33 Research Project has established best management principles for electric ROW, including Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) using herbicides. Corteva Agriscience™ has been a partner in this research for decades.

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Hear from State Game Lands 33 Researchers

The continuous research happening on utility rights-of-way just outside of State College, Pennsylvania has produced a wealth of industry knowledge over the years. Watch as some of the researchers discuss their experiences on the project.

Dr. Carolyn Mahan

A legacy of wildlife research on ROW

Dr. Carolyn Mahan, professor of biology and environmental studies with Penn State University, discusses the more than 60 year legacy of ground-breaking rights-of-way research happening at the State Game Lands 33 Research Project. 

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Brad Ross

Rights-of-way are for the birds

Brad Ross, an instructor and research assistant with Penn State University, describes wire zone/border zone concept of managing vegetation on utility rights-of-way.

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Biodiverse Wildlife Habitat

State Game Lands 33: Guiding ROW and Habitat Management

State Game Lands 33: Guiding ROW and Habitat Management

Learn how decades of environmental research results show that IVM can reduce maintenance inputs for vegetation management programs while enhancing electrical service reliability and environmental sustainability for native wildlife species.

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State Game Lands 33: The Impact of Herbicides on Biodiversity

State Game Lands 33: The Impact of Herbicides on Biodiversity

Dr. Carolyn Mahan details the important role different plants can have throughout utility rights-of-way and how selective herbicide applciations can positively impact biodiversity.

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State Gamelands 33: Pollinator Research

State Gamelands 33: Pollinator Research

Hannah Stout, a conservation entomologist and researcher, details the “ecological goldmine” that the State Gamelands 33 Research Project provides for critical pollinator research.

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State Gamelands 33: ground beetle research

State Gamelands 33: ground beetle research

Dana Roberts, a researcher on the State Gamelands 33 Research Project, talks about how ground beetles can serve as a bio indicator of overall ecosystem health on areas like rights-of-way.

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The Opportunity for Pollinator Habitat on Rights of Way

The Opportunity for Pollinator Habitat on Rights of Way

Iris Caldwell, with the University of Illinois-Chicago, explains the Pollinator Habitat Scorecard, and how it can be used by utilities to help establish crucial pollinator habitat on rights-of-way.

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Partnerships and Resources

Corteva Agriscience has partnered with like-minded organizations to further habitat enhancement practices in vegetation management. These partnerships have resulted in programs and resources that vegetation managers can implement on the lands they manage. 

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Habitat Forever

Corteva has announced a partnership with the nation’s leading upland habitat conservation group, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, to enhance habitat within various non-crop areas. 

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Growing pollinator habitat

Corteva Agriscience partners with National 4-H Council, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever on biodiversity initiative

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Biodiversity Research Summary

More than 60 years of research is summarized in Plant and Animal Response to Long Term Vegetation Management Practices on Rights-of-Way 

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