@article{ref1,
title="Right-of-way forestry",
journal="Transportation research record",
year="1983",
author="Young, Harold E. and Hatton, David B.",
volume="913",
number="",
pages="14-16",
abstract="Since World War II, the landscape-architecture approach to the maintenance of the right-of-way (ROW) of our major highway systems has been most commendable. The grade of the nonpaved portion of the ROW has been aesthetically maintained by planting grass and a combination of woody shrubs and trees. This was accomplished at relatively low cost compared with the annual new-highway construction budget. Since 1978, widespread inflation has caused a marked reduction in annual transportation department budgets, which has made a review of maintenance costs necessary. An alternative approach to ROW maintenance is forestry. This should reduce costs considerably and under normal economic conditions should actually yield a net profit. In addition, ROW forestry will produce many thousands of tons of biomass annually for energy, food and fodder, and feedstock for the chemical industries. (Author) Record URL:  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/trr/1983/913/913-004.pdf<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0361-1981",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}