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A model for vegetation managment along Maryland roadways.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A model for vegetation managment along Maryland roadways./
Author:	Shivery, Jodie M.
Description:	76 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Glenn LaRue Smith.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International46-06.
Subject:	Environmental Sciences. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1455965
ISBN:	9780549629450

A model for vegetation managment along Maryland roadways.
Shivery, Jodie M.

A model for vegetation managment along Maryland roadways. - 76 p.

Adviser: Glenn LaRue Smith.

Thesis (M.L.A.)--Morgan State University, 2008.

This study is concerned with framing a rationale for the development of native plant community restoration along Maryland roadways, based on the environmental losses of native meadow, grassland and prairie habitat, and suggesting a strategy that allows the natural regeneration of native plant communities and the control of known invasive species. In an era of international debates about global warming and environmental stewardship, it is crucial that environmental systems are enhanced and maintained to benefit localized as well as global diversity. One overlooked environmental system is the unpaved highway right-of-way. There are currently almost 4 million miles of public roads within the United States. Maryland has a combined total 30,962 miles of public roads, including Federal, State, County and other municipal jurisdictions. According to the American Association State Highway Transportation officials, AASHTO, the rights-of-way that border the nation's roads add up to over 12 million acres of land. Of all the acreage in the United States, 25 million acres are covered by turf. The limited ecologic diversity of turf, with its large carbon footprint, replaces the wider diversity of the natural flora. This thesis will argue that roadsides in the state of Maryland, some 17,000 acres could be maintained with more environmentally recognized strategies that enhance and sustain bio-diversity at multiple levels and still fall within current vegetation management guidelines. According to Conservation Biologist, Reed F. Noss, in many urban and suburban regions, roadsides provide some of the only semi-natural habitat left. The ability and need to reclaim the natural ecology of the roadside is the primary focus of this thesis.

ISBN: 9780549629450Subjects--Topical Terms:

676987
Environmental Sciences.

A model for vegetation managment along Maryland roadways.
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