[MAIPC] Integrated Vegetation Management

[Jil Swearingen]

Liz,

I've heard presentations by Rick Johnstone of IVM over the past 10+ years
at pesticide certification trainings in Maryland. I've been impressed with
the approach IVM takes and how it is filling a niche with respect to ROW
vegetation management. My assessment is that IVM is sensitive to native
plants and wildlife and target control efforts toward plants/veg that pose
a problem for the utility while avoiding unnecessary impacts to natives and
restoring or improving wildlife habitat. This requires substantial planning
and taking a long-term approach for the management of each site.  I have
not worked with IVM nor seen a project first-hand but the presentations
indicate a vast improvement over the historic scorched Earth approach to
utility ROW management.

Are you considering hiring them for ROW work?

Thanks,

Jil


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Jil Swearingen
Invasive Species Consultant
*In the Weeds*
410-200-7085




On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:41 AM Randall, John L <jrandall at email.unc.edu>
wrote:

> Greetings from North Carolina: The attached Resolution from the Orange
> County Board of Commissioners is hopefully the beginning of a larger effort
> in NC on rights-of-way conservation and management.
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> Johnny Randall
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> Johnny Randall, PhD
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> Director of Conservation
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> North Carolina Botanical Garden
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> *From:* MAIPC <maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org> *On Behalf Of *Liz Nalle
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 13, 2019 5:25 PM
> *To:* frazmo <frazmo at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* MAIPC Listserve <MAIPC at lists.maipc.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [MAIPC] Integrated Vegetation Management
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> Thanks. It’s an interesting concept. You’re absolutely right that rights
> of way do present good habitat, that is usually neglected. I just hope
> they’re not white washing (green washing?) and protecting utility companies
> and Bayer.
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> Liz
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> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 2:56 PM frazmo <frazmo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes and my sense has been that the group is heavily oriented toward
> right-of-way issues and thus lots of utilities representation. My personal
> opinion is that the utility right-of-ways represent important actual or
> potential habitat and the IVM folks seem to be doing some constructive work
> to balance the utilities' needs with environmental/sustainability
> considerations. I would rather see a utility subscribing to IVM than doing
> some of the slapdash work I was seeing twenty years ago by an unnamed local
> utility, where they were taking a bad problem and making it worse through
> poor practices. (Incidentally I believe they have gotten on board with IVM
> and shown considerable improvement.) Cheers,  Steve Young, Arlington VA
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> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 2:05 PM Liz Nalle <liznalle5 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Has anyone heard of this group?
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> http://www.ivmpartners.org/ There seems to be a lot of industry reps on
> their Board of Directors.
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> Liz Nalle
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> Inland Bays Garden Center
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