The Green Lane Research and Demonstration Project has had three objectives since 1987: to determine the effectiveness of mechanical and herbicidal maintenance treatments on control of undesirable trees, development of tree-resistant plant cover types,and wildlife and species of high public interest (Yahner and Hutnik 2005). The wire-border zone method of vegetation management was implemented on the electrical transmission line area (hereafter, right of way [ROW]) in 1987 (Yahner and Hutnik 2004, 2005), producing a tree-resistant forb-shrub-grass cover type in wire zones and a tall shrub cover type in border zones.
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