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Cost Effective Vegetation Management on a Recently Cleared Electric Transmission Line Right-of-way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Christopher A. Nowak ,
Lawrence P. Abrahamson ,
Edward F. Neuhauser ,
Curtis G. Foreback ,
H. Dale Freed ,
Scott B. Shaheen  and
Craig H. Stevens
Christopher A. Nowak
Affiliation:
Facul. For., State Univ. N.Y., Coll. Environ. Sci. For., 1 Forestry Dr., Syracuse, NY 13210
Lawrence P. Abrahamson
Affiliation:
Facul. For., State Univ. N.Y., Coll. Environ. Sci. For., 1 Forestry Dr., Syracuse, NY 13210
Edward F. Neuhauser
Affiliation:
Facul. For., State Univ. N.Y., Coll. Environ. Sci. For., 1 Forestry Dr., Syracuse, NY 13210
Curtis G. Foreback
Affiliation:
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., 300 Erie Blvd. W., Syracuse, NY 13202
H. Dale Freed
Affiliation:
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., 300 Erie Blvd. W., Syracuse, NY 13202
Scott B. Shaheen
Affiliation:
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., 300 Erie Blvd. W., Syracuse, NY 13202
Craig H. Stevens
Affiliation:
Tree Preservation Co., Inc., 566 North State Rd., Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
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Abstract

Several application modes and methods (schemes) of using herbicides are available to control undesirable vegetation on electric transmission line rights-of-way (ROW). Preferential use of a management scheme can be based on its cost effectiveness, i.e., degree of vegetation control and treatment cost. A treatment that increases/maintains desirable plants, decreases/maintains undesirable plants, and has relatively low cost, can be considered cost effective. Three common herbicides, 2,4-D, picloram and triclopyr, were applied in the field to test treatment mode (selective and nonselective) and method (cut stump, basal, and stem-foliar) effects on cost effectiveness during initial clearing and first and second conversion cycles on one electric transmission line ROW in Upstate New York. Clear or selective cutting with no herbicide was most cost effective during initial clearing. Nonselective and selective stem-foliar schemes were most cost effective during the first and second conversion cycles, respectively.

Keywords

2,4-D, (2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acidpicloram, 4-amino-3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinecarboxylic acidtriclopyr, [(3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinyl)oxy]acetic acidBasalstem-foliarcut stumppicloramtriclopyr2,4-D
Type
Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 1992 , pp. 828 - 837
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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