This guideline, developed by the Utility Arborist Association Environmental Stewardship Committee, provides a primer on how to incorporate the management of compatible vegetation for target species and biodiversity into Integrated Vegetation Management programs.
Best Management Practices
Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management
The Iowa Living Roadway Trust Fund provides detailed information about integrated roadside vegetation management (IRVM) and IRVM plans on their website.
Guide to Wind Energy and Wildlife
This interactive guide from the American Wind & Wildlife Association summarizes current information on onshore wind energy development in the U.S. in the context of protecting wildlife and their habitats, including regulatory considerations, impacts and risk factors to wildlife and habitat, and landscape assessment and siting.
Pollinator Habitat Establishment & Management Guide
This habitat guide, developed by the Bee & Butterfly Habitat Fund, outlines the steps that go into planning, preparing, planting, and maintaining great pollinator habitat.
Best Management Practices for the Monarch Butterfly in Oklahoma Rights-of-Way
This document, authored by the Rights-of-Way Work Group of the Oklahoma Monarch and Pollinator Collaborative, provides recommended Best Management Practices for monarch habitat on Oklahoma Industry Sector Rights-of-Way (ROW), including transportation ROWs, electric transmission ROWs, solar parks, oil and gas distribution lines, and rail corridors.
EPRI: Overview of Pollinator-Friendly Solar Energy
This Technical Brief provides a summary of the key considerations related to “pollinator-friendly solar,” including: site design, construction and maintenance; procurement of pollinator-friendly solar; and the business case. Sidebars cover honey bees on solar fields, brown fields to bright fields, and several specific power company case studies.
Evaluating Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management (IRVM) Techniques to Improve Pollinator Habitat
This report from the Maryland Department of Transportation determines ideal vegetation management tactics. The goal of this study is to identify which tactics maximize quality floral resources for pollinators in the Northeast and to assess how those different regimes affect regional bee populations.
North Carolina Guidelines for Planting Within Highway Right-of-Way
This guide developed by North Caroline Dept. of Transportation outlines legal requirements and permits for planting on highway right-of-way.
The Cost Efficiency of IVM
This report prepared by BioCompliance Consulting, Inc. presents a business case for the practice of Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) on electric and gas transmission rights-of- way, both in terms of cost savings and the benefits that are produced.
EPRI: Conservation Actions for Electric Power Companies to Support Monarch Butterflies
This report prepared by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation describes the conservation actions for monarch habitat protection, management, enhancement, and restoration that are compatible with the land use and management of electric power company properties. Conservation actions are mapped to the various land asset types to understand where the greatest monarch conservation potential exists.