Environment Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management 8th International Symposium

The management of rights-of-way by electric and telephone utilities, highway departments, gas pipeline companies, and railroads around the world is guided and constrained by policies and regulations to protect the environment. Companies that manage rights-of-way are required to comply with these regulations, and are seeking the most cost-effective management practices that, at the same time, demonstrate stewardship of the environment. Protection of biodiversity and sustainable development are especially important as national goals in many countries, and rights-of-way managers are seeking practical ways to include public participation in their operations.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments In Memoriam Part I. Symposium Plenary Session PlenarySessionOpeningRemarks and Presentations Plenary Panel Session: "When the Lights Go Out: Environmental Choices and Consequences" Part II. Vegetation Management Vegetation Management Best Practices for Reliability and Ecosystem Management Development of an Integrated Resource Management Strategy for Transmission Right-of-Way Corridors for Successful Implementation of Integrated Vegetation Management in California Stable Plant Communities in the Pacific Northwest Control of Woody Invasive Plants Using Mechanical and Chemical Treatments Tree, Shrub, and Herb Succession and Five Years of Management Following the Establishment of a New Electric Transmission Right-of-Way through aWooded Wetland Pepco's Environmental Stewardship on Transmission Line Right-of-Way Vegetation Management A Broad-Based, IVM Approach to Right-of-Way Management on Long Island, NY The Implementation of Vegetation Management Projects on U.S. Forest Service Lands: The Big Eddy-Ostrander Vegetation Project on the Mt. Hood National Forest Purple Loosestrife Biological Control Program Vegetation Management of Woody Deciduous Species with the Biological Herbicide Chondrostereum purpureum Implications of Branch Strength Loss in Silver Maple Trees Converted from Round-over to V-trims During Electrical Line Clearance Operations Exploiting Allelopathy as a Present and Future Tool in the Management of Rights-of-Way Performance Standards for Assessing Vegetation Management on Rights-of-Way: Case Study of New York State DOT's Roadside Rights-of-Way Vegetation Management Program The Application and Business Benefits of Aerial Laser Survey Techniques Used in the Management of Vegetation Encroachment within Transmission Rights-of-Way Visual LandscapeMonitoring: A Tool for Characterizing and Managing Highway Corridor Landscapes Modifications in Viewer Appreciation of Highway Landscape Following the Implementation of Ecological Management in Quebec, Canada Vegetation Management of Aviation Rights-of-Way Part III. Project Planning Managing Environmental Compliance: A Study of Expansion, Replacement and Integrity Projects Management of Cumulative Impacts in Transmission Line Siting Fast-Track Permitting: A Case Study of the Kern River 2003 Expansion Project Survey of Electric Utility Rights-of-Way Practitioners An Environmental Strategic Siting Study and Public Process for a 500 kV Transmission Line Project in the Desert Southwest EPRI-GTC Tailored Collaboration Project: A Standardized Methodology for Siting Overhead Electric Transmission Line Getting the Crop to Market: Siting and Permitting Transmission Lines on Buffalo Ridge, Minnesota When Public Convenience and Necessity Are Not Enough: Who Is Deciding Whether, Where, and How to Build Natural Gas Pipelines? Planning a Large Diameter Pipeline in a Multi-Use Urban Corridor Permitting and Building an Oil Pipeline in Lago Agrio, Ecuador Management of Electrical Risks in Transmission Line - Pipeline Shared Rights-of-Way The OCP Pipeline Project in Environmentally Sensitive Areas Part IV. Cultural Discovery and Recovery of Prehistoric Human Skeletal Remains from the Guardian Pipeline Corridor, Kendall County, Illinois Large-Scale Cultural Landscapes in Rights-of-Way Management Part V. Wildlife The Relationship between Birds and Shrubs in a Power Line Right-of-Way PacifiCorp's Bird Management Program: Integrating Reactive, Proactive, and Preventative Measures to Reduce Avian Mortality on Power Lines Minimizing Bird Collisions:WhatWorks for the Birds and What Works for the Utility? Bird Nesting Ecology on a Right-of-Way in Central Pennsylvania: Long-Term Effects of the Wire-Border Zone Method Mitigation of Woodpecker Damage to Power Poles in British Columbia, Canada Monk Parakeets: An Expanding Problem on Power Lines and Other Electrical Utility Structures Assessment of Damage on Electric Transmission Wood Poles Caused by Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) Ospreys and Transmission Lines in Lake Houston, TX: Problem and Solution Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Electrocutions and Artificial Food Sources in Alaska Cooperative Efforts by the Bonneville Power Administration to Promote Ferruginous Hawk Nesting on the Department of Energy's Hanford Reservation in Washington State A Case of White-Tailed Deer Controlling the Woody Vegetation in a Power Line Right-of-Way Located in aWinter Yard Characteristics of DeciduousWoody Plant Summer Browse byWhite-tailed Deer on Electric Transmission Lines Avian Shrub Land Management and Shrub Land Nesting Success Bird-Caused Outages along the Bernalillo to Blackwater 345 kV Line in New Mexico Bird Mortality Near High Voltage Transmission Lines in Burlington and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Small Mammal Communities along Transmission Power Line Rights-of-Way in Deciduous Forests of Québec Wildlife use of Riparian Vegetation Buffer Zones in High Voltage Powerline Rights-of-Way in Quebec Deciduous Forest A Comparison of Desert Tortoise Populations along the Kern River Pipeline Right-of-Way 1991-2003 Desert Tortoise Mitigation: Lessons Learned a Case Study of the Kern River 2003 Expansion Project Management of Power Line Easement Vegetation for Small Mammal Conservation in Australia: A Case Study of the Broad-toothed Rat (Mastacomys fuscus) Vernal Pool Identification and Protection - Current and Future Permitting Implications Pipeline Construction and Compliance with the Migratory Bird Convention Act Impact of Natural Gas Pipeline Operation and Maintenance on Long-Term Population Viability of the Threatened Gopher Tortoise Part VI. Biodiversity Potential Implications of the Canadian Species at Risk Act on Oil and Gas Companies Research Gaps Regarding the Ecological Effects of Fragmentation Related to Transmission-Line Rights-of-Way Mitigation Measures for Rare Species During Necessary Maintenance Activities Within Existing Utility Rights-of-Way Transmission Line Rights-of-Way as Enemy-Reduced Space for Moths (Lepidoptera) Selected Non-native Plants of Rights-of-Ways (ROWs) in the Southeastern United States and Associated Impacts Critical Habitat Assessment Using HEP Modeling in ROW Corridors Part VII. Geographic Information Systems Using a Mobile GIS Platform for Management of Noxious Weeds in the Mokelumne RiverWatershed of Northern California Part VIII. Wetlands Research of Wetland Construction and Mitigation Activities for Certificated Section 7(c) Pipeline Projects in the United States Part IX. Soils A Horizontal Directional Drilling Best Management Practices Manual Inadvertent Slurry Returns during Horizontal Directional Drilling: Understanding the Frequency and Causes Deep Compaction Resulting from Pipeline Construction - Potential Causes and Solutions Effects of Heat from a Pipeline on Crop Growth - Interim Results Part X. Pesticides Ultra Low Volume Applications for Rights-of-Way Part XI. Aquatic Life Lake Erie Link Project: Assessment of Potential Construction Effects of Electric Cable Crossing(s) of Lake Erie Impacts of Power Line Rights-of-Way on Forested Stream Habitat in Western Washington Investigation of the Potential Effects of Marine Pipelines on Dungeness Crab Movement and Benthic Ecology Investigations into Gas Pipeline Operational Noise and its Potential to Impact Toothed and Baleen Whales Overview of the River and Stream Crossings Study Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Aerial Hyperspectral Imaging and Groundtruthing Survey: Use of Aerial Hyperspectral Imaging in Defining Habitat Areas of Particular-Concern for Summer Flounder in a High-Energy Estuarine Environment Part XII. Public Participation Public Perception of Powerline Right-of-way Management: A Review of Current Knowledge Barriers to Collaborative Nature Conservation Efforts in Rural Energy Corridors: A Case Study in Southern Quebec Part XIII. Regulatory Compliance Helms-Gregg 230 kV: Successfully Negotiating the NEPA Process Afforestation on Power Line Rights-of-Way Using Speckled Alder (Alnus rugosa) Part XIV. Fire Management Right-of-Way Management by Eskom, South Africa Development of a Wildfire Risk Management System for British Columbia Transmission Corporation's Rights-of-Way Part XV. Restoration Restoration on a Pipeline Right-of-Way in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada Desert Restoration on Pipeline Rights-of-Way Symposium Participants Author Index Keyword Index