# Presentation: 063890

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## SAFETEA-LU Section 6006

**GUIDANCE:**
**CFR 389,**
- Section 6006

## 5  ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES

**SURVEY VEGETATION**
**ESTABLISH  PLANTS**
**CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS**
**CREATE FUEL BREAKS**
**TRAIN Crews, Contractors **
**                ****and the Public**

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## WHAT SECTION. 6006 IS NOT:

**1.) INVASIVE PLANTS  **
**2.) NEW FUNDING**
**THANKS TO EFFORTS OF:**
-    American Seed Trade Association
-    Monsanto
-    Property Rights Coalition

## WHAT IT IS!!!

- NOXIOUS WEED
- +
- NATIVE PLANT
- =  INTEGRATED ROADSIDE
- VEGETATION MANAGEMENT

-               IRVM

## NOXIOUS WEEDS

- Legal designation by most State Departments of Agriculture
-     **TO PROTECT**:
- Agriculture
- Environment
- Human Health

## WHAT IS AN INVASIVE PLANT?

-  NOT NATIVE
- Competition
- WIDE TOLERANCES
- Spreads
- Adapts

## Weeds to Watch

- KNAPWEEDS

- BLACK LOCUST

- STAR THISTLE

- MUSK THISTLE

-          PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE

- KUDZU

- PRAGMITES

- LEAFY SPURGE

- AILANTHUS

- RUSSIAN OLIVE

## MANY INVASIVES BECOME NOXIOUS WEEDS

**GARLIC MUSTARD**
**Moving from EAST**
**Prefers woodlands**
**Bolts in early spring**
**No one control method**
**    ****IN MY OWN BACKYARD!!!**

## You would not plant DANDELIONS would you?

**    ****Introduced**
**    ****Eurasian origin**
**    ****Out of control**
**POP QUIZ:**
- Is a dandelion a
- noxious weed or
- invasive plant?

## HIGHWAYS BLAMED.

- BY:
- LANDOWNERS
- AGENCIES
- TRAVELERS
- RESEARCH
-   **BECAUSE WE VISIBLY**
**    ****CROSS MANY**
**    ****BOUNDARIES**

## BEFORE & DURING Construction 

- FIRST We Can Map all
-           ROW vegetation
- Mapping benchmarks
- Reference for upgrades
- Include in pre design
- Know your SOIL seed bank before moving
**BYU has soil test!!!**
- CONTROL new weeds
-         during and after work.
-  No NEW TOPSOILS

## AVOID SNOWPLOWING IN THE SUMMER . . . . . 

**Texas Tumbleweeds**
**create problems:**
- Maintenance
- Fire hazard
- Seed spread
- Safety hazard
- COSTLY

## HERBICIDE APPLICATORS:

**USE SITE SPECIFIC**
**METHODS:**
**Horseback**
**Rafting**
**A T V s**
**Backpack**
**GPS Trucks**

## GRAVEL PIT CERTIFICATION

## CHOSE ALTERNATIVE PLANTS

- Rural/urban RULE
- Invasives still sold
- Train personnel
-         in plant selection
- Chose local natives
- New Book in 2006

## EXPANDING FROM THE  WEST !!!  SAHARA MUSTARD

- from Africa
**outcompetes desert **
- is very flamable
- NO known control
**CALTRANS MAPPING**** Workshop, 2005**

## PARTNERSHIPS

**ADIRONDACK PARK**
**WASHINGTON STATE & BRITISH COLUMBIA**
**GREATER YELLOWSTONE AREA **
**FICMNEW and WAB**
**MIDWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP**

**C****OOPERATIVE**
**W****EED**
**M****ANAGEMENT**
**A****REAS**
**CALIFORNIA**

- C W M A s

## Since 1994

**F**EDERAL
**I**NTERAGENCY
**C**OMMITTEE for the
**M**ANAGEMENT of
**N**OXIOUS and
**E**XOTIC
**W**EEDS

- FICMNEW

## GREATER YELLOWSTONE AREA

- 11 million acres
-    with many political borders, by one group:

- Federal Agencies
- State Agencies
- Local Agencies
- GYA is working across
- Jurisdictional lines With
- sA  PLAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

## ADIRONDACK PARK INVASIVE PLANT  PARTNERSHIP  					APIPP.org.......................

- NEW YORK STATE
- MOU 2001
- NYSDOT, in lead
- ERADICATION HERE
- IS STILL POSSIBLE!!!

## WEEDS ACROSS BORDERS	Since 2002 with F I C M N E W

- WEEDS DO NOT RESPECT POLITICAL BOUNDARIES:
**CONTINENTAL**
**COOPERATION**
**in “War on Weeds”**

## COMING SOON

***DANGEROUS TRAVELERS***
***ROADSIDE WEED MANAGEMENT***
**NCHRP/TRB  STUDY 36-05, Invasives**
***ALTERNATIVE ORNAMENTAL PLANTS***
**     ****WOODIES FIELD GUIDE**

## INVASIVE PLANTScover 4600 acres per day and cost $25 billion/year

- 		**KUDZU**
**the Ultimate Invasive**
**Grows 1 foot/day**
**Introduced in ’30s.**
**Continues to adapt**
**NOW in Illinois **
**   ****and Washington**

## MORE INVASIVE SPECIES COMING TO YOUR BACKYARD

**animals**
**diseases**
**insects**
**PREPARE**** **!

## WWW.FHWA.DOT.GOV/ROADSIDES

**WWW.FHWA.DOT.GOV/ROADSIDES**

## SAFETEA-LU, YOU & ME

- BONNIE L. HARPER-LORE
- Restoration Ecologist
- FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION/FHWA
- Office of Human & Natural Environment
**651-291-6104**
_**WWW.fhwa.dot.gov/roadsides**_