Dailycsr.com – 25 July 2018 – Many from the utility sectors along with various “right-of-way owners” are producing commendable results from its work in the field of “environment and conservation”. However, the bigger concern of sustainability seems to always slip into the backseat with issues like “emissions” or animal related matters which concerns with “sweet manatee or a cute cougar cub”, for their people most connect to.
 
On the other hand, the “good things” taking place with the vegetation management in the right-of-way does not seem to catch much attention. The maintenance of vegetation cost is one of the top maintenance expenses of utilities, although the efforts that contribute majorly to sustainability seem to be “rarely captured”.
 
Similarly, the terms like “integrated vegetation management”, in short IVM, is common one between the managers of utility vegetation which has coined decades ago. However, such terms are not “commonly known or understood”. The concept of IVM supports the managers in planning out the work in order to protect the utilities from “dangerous trees” that could potentially result in power outages. Interestingly, IVM also takes into consideration the habitats of pollinators like bees.
 
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Dailycsr.com – 09 September 2016 – The Ray, known officially as the Ray C. Anderson Memorial Highway, stretched across eighteen miles connecting “exits 1 and 18 – from West Point, Ga., to LaGrange, Ga”. For the year of 2016, the Ray, announced the “Georgia Department of Transportation” as the winner of the “North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) Pollinator Roadside Management Award”.
 
It is a recognition bestowed upon “transportation agencies” who tops in “pollinator-friendly roadside practices”, whereby contributing, probably in a significant manner, to boost “pollinator habitat nationwide”, which also takes into account the imperilled habit and the species of monarch butterflies.
 
The landscape architect of GDOT, Chris DeGrace, received the first place in the annual conference of the “National Roadside Vegetation Management Association” that took place in Franklin, Tennessee. The same was presented by Laurie Davies Adams, the executive director of Pollinator Partnership. Over a span of fourteen years, GDOT planted around “2,700 acres of roadside wildflowers” across the road, wherein GDOT used “sales of wildflower-themed vehicle license plates”.
 
Throughout the state, during the fall, GDOT distributed thousands of packets containing wildflower seeds which a mix of “regional native mix”. In this manner, GDOT attempted to “educate, raise awareness and increase plantings”. However, for the year of 2016, the seeds packets will be produced under the partnership of The Ray, while the packets will feature “a pollinator mix of regional native wildflower and pollinator plants”.
 
 
 
 
 
 
References:
www.ethicalperformance.com