Vegetation Management & Wildfire Mitigation

As temperatures cool and days shorten, vines move carbohydrates from their leaves to their roots for winter. Fall applications with Whetstone herbicide use this natural process to carry active ingredients deeper into the plant. Instead of simply burning back top growth, Whetstone targets the root system for long-term control, fewer retreatments, and cleaner rights-of-way next spring.

Vegetation management used to run on a calendar. Wildfire mitigation plans changed that plan for utilities across the West, and nowhere is the shift clearer than in the high-elevation, high fire-threat terrain of Lake Tahoe. Learn how Liberty Utilities (CalPeco Electric) LLC (“Liberty”) uses real-time data from R.M. Young and Western Weather Group to modernize vegetation management.