Abstract
Pacific Gas and Electric manages 18,000 miles of transmission lines in California within five general bioregions that extend from the coastal areas to the Sierra Nevada/Cascades. The development of an integrated resource management (IRM) strategy through the use of integrated vegetation management (IVM) techniques, have reduced environmental and social conflicts. Vegetation managers are actively promoting the benefits of IRM to ecological, cultural, and economic resources to obtain approvals for their vegetation management of transmission rights-of-way. Specific techniques are presented that have been developed to allow utilities to use IVM methods to provide safe and reliable energy while maintaining positive property owner relationships. Using IVM to accomplish IRM successfully integrates a wide range of environmental issues as well property owner concerns. A matrix of IVM techniques is described to show how desired vegetation types can be established and maintained.
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