Setting the bar   Roads & Bridges March 2008   By Tara Vantimmeren
Pennsylvania DOT is tops for research and results
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In the weeds   Roads & Bridges May 2002   Allen Zeyher
Last September, the National Roadside Vegetation Management Association (NRVMA) met in Waco, Texas, to discuss the inside story of how to keep the nation’s roadsides tidy. The leader board included four organizations that were presented with the association’s annual awards for excellence in managing roadside vegetation. Roads & Bridges interviewed the winners, including the city of Duluth, Minn., which claimed top honors in the city category. Other winners were the Florida Department of Transportation (state DOT), Great Bend, Kan., (county), and Becker Underwood Inc., Ames, Iowa, (support).

Chop off their heads!   Roads & Bridges May 2002   Allen Zeyher
Each spring, the tender blades of grass stretch their heads up with new hope. And every year, an employee of some highway maintenance department comes along and chops off the heads of these shoots. The highway department also plants grass or wildflowers or trees, but here we focus on the tools to turn back the waves of vegetation that yearly encroach on our roadways. Below, ROADS & BRIDGES takes a look at some of the products that keep our country’s roads from being overgrown.

Chop off their heads!   Roads & Bridges January 2002   Allen Zeyher
Each spring, the tender blades of grass stretch their heads up with new hope. And every year, an employee of some highway maintenance department comes along and chops off the heads of these shoots. The highway department also plants grass or wildflowers or trees, but here we focus on the tools to turn back the waves of vegetation that yearly encroach on our roadways. Below, ROADS & BRIDGES takes a look at some of the products that keep our country’s roads from being overgrown.

Flying for business   Roads & Bridges September 2001   Margaret Blain Cervarich
In an effort to minimize traffic disruptions, Des Moines speeds through repaving project

A garden on the roadside   Roads & Bridges May 2001   Allen Zeyher
NRVMA rewards excellence in management of roadside vegetation
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Present arms!   Roads & Bridges May 2001   Allen Zeyher
Roll call of soldiers in the war against advancing roadside weeds
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Examining the flora from Kansas City   Roads & Bridges September 2000   Allen Zeyher

GPS helps manage roadside vegetation   Roads & Bridges May 2000   Elizabeth Marum

Keeping American roads beautiful   Roads & Bridges May 2000   Bill Wilson

There are no kiddie corners   Roads & Bridges May 2000   Bill Wilson

Blue grass will be green with envy   Roads & Bridges September 1999   by Bill Wilson

Making the cut   Roads & Bridges May 1999   by Bill Wilson

NRVMA honors vegetation pros with ’98 Roadside Excellence awards   Roads & Bridges February 1999   by Tim Gregorski

Learn and grow from roadside peers at NRVMA conference   Roads & Bridges September 1998   by Tim Gregorski

Advantages add up for HDPE pipe   Roads & Bridges September 1996   Jerry Liffrig

Geocomposite drains 'edge out' skeptics   Roads & Bridges September 1996

Wetland Banking   Roads & Bridges May 1996

Weeds zapped with laser accuracy   Roads & Bridges May 1996

New 'plateau' in vegetation management   Roads & Bridges May 1996

FIELD TRIALS   Roads & Bridges April 1996   Areg Gharabegian P.E.

Rerouted or uprooted?   Roads & Bridges March 1996   Larry Flynn

Mass-production drain train keeps cost low, output high   Roads & Bridges February 1996

CALIBRATION CORNER   Roads & Bridges February 1996   John Ford