This online library is a clearinghouse of tools and information related to habitat on rights-of-way and other lands. From seed mix calculators to mowing guidelines and everything in between, you’ll find it here.
Assessment Tools, Best Management Practices, Planning Tools
Assessment Tools, Best Management Practices, Planning Tools
This manual written by the Pollinator Partnership offers helpful background information, planting guidelines, site and project evaluations, and checklists to assist utility rights-of-way managers in the Southwest U.S.
Best Management Practices
This guideline developed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources provides an overview of the steps necessary to successfully establish native prairie species.
Best Management Practices
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation developed this guideline to help landowners with site selection, site preparation, plant selection, planting techniques, and ongoing management of sites up to an acre in size.
Best Management Practices
Rights-of-way (ROWs) impact habitat primarily through fragmentation and edge effects and also act as vectors for invasive species (weeds). Other potential environmental impacts from ROWs include increased erosion, impacts to stream morphology, etc. Vegetation management can often create conditions that favor weeds and trees! However, ROWs also have the potential to benefit habitat as some plant and animal species need the open areas offered by ROWs and thrive in the edge habitat.
Best Management Practices
The Federal Highway Administration issued these guidelines for vegetation management and enhancing native vegetation along roadsides to improve pollinator habitat. This document includes case studies, tools, and recommendations.