• Wildlife Response to More than 50 Years of Vegetation Maintenance on Pennsylvania Right-of-Way

    The State Game Lands 33 Research and Demonstration Project in Pennsylvania has been supplying us with information on the ecological impacts of right of way maintenance practices since 1952.Read more...
    Dec. 2, 2010

    The State Game Lands 33 Research and Demonstration Project (or the Bramble and Byrnes Study) was initiated in Pennsylvania, U.S., in 1952, which makes this project the longest continuous study documenting the effects of mechanical and herbicidal maintenance on wildlife and plants along an electric transmission right-of-way (ROW).

    The project has provided hands-on, scientific information on the effects of ROW maintenance for use by the scientific community, public, and utility companies. This paper briefly describes treatments, vegetation, and wildlife studies conducted on this ROW. In addition, the possible impact of highway development on the future of this study is discussed....

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    Richard H. Yahner

    Journal of Arboriculture

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