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Since humankind developed systems of travel, nature has challenged the integrity and function of those systems with vegetation growth. Such challenges for a modern highway system range from risks to the safety of facility users to premature deterioration of the road system infrastructure to negative impacts on the environment where the highway facility is located.
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• Agency policies and procedures and state laws and regulations, • Costs and benefits, • Environmental impacts, • Public opinion, • Methods of vegetation management, • Implementation, • Revegetation, • Effectiveness, • Best management practices, and • Additional items. Although nearly all responding states reported that they have a policy on roadside vegetation management, only about half have authority and/or direction from their legislative bodies to pursue an IRVM decision-making process in managing roadsides.
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Roadside Vegetation Management Association offers a key, well-recognized national forum for such information during an annual conference-style meeting. Meetings of the TRB Roadside Maintenance Committee at the association's conference serve as a vital link to other transportation community and vegetation management decision makers.
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