<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Liz,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Are you considering hiring them for ROW work? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Jil</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">.......................</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jil Swearingen</div><div>Invasive Species Consultant</div><div><i>In the Weeds</i></div><div>410-200-7085</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:41 AM Randall, John L <<a href="mailto:jrandall@email.unc.edu">jrandall@email.unc.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 13, 2019 5:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> frazmo <<a href="mailto:frazmo@gmail.com" target="_blank">frazmo@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [MAIPC] Integrated Vegetation Management<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 2:56 PM frazmo <<a href="mailto:frazmo@gmail.com" target="_blank">frazmo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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<u></u><u></u></p>
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