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Appendix D - Overview of Common Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management or Integrated Vegetation Management Steps
Pages 110-113

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... The goal of an IVM or Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management (IRVM) program is to keep noxious weed populations low enough to prevent unacceptable spread, damage, or annoyance, and to encourage desirable vegetation to permanently replace the weeds.
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... Weed management is a process that continues over many years, and weed managers are continually prioritizing treatment areas and balancing the priorities with their resources. This process is called "setting treatment action levels." When the weed population reaches an intolerable level, a department of transportation (DOT)
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... Williams, Nonindigenous Aquatic and Selected Terrestrial Species of Florida: Status, Pathway, and Time of Introduction, Present Distribution, and Significant Ecological and Economic Effects, National Biological Service, Gainesville, Fla. • Noxious Weed Cost Share Program and ISDA 2002 Cost Share Program Accomplishments, Idaho State Department of Agriculture, Boise.
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... This abstract describes the effects found of more than 300 rangeland weeds in the United States, which cause an estimated loss of $2 billion annually, affecting the livestock industry, interfering with grazing, poisoning animals, increasing costs of managing and producing livestock, and reducing land value. Weed Science Society of America.
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