Introduction

What is IRVM?

Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management (IRVM) is an approach to right-of-way maintenance that combines an array of management techniques with sound ecological principles to establish and maintain safe, healthy, and functional roadsides. The IRVM toolbox includes judicious use of herbicides, spot mowing, prescribed burning, mechanical tree and brush removal, and preventing and treating disturbances such as farm field runoff. IRVM’s long-term objective is to reduce roadside maintenance costs by creating stands of durable, perennial native plants.