HERBICIDE PROGRAM, SKILL AID MISSOURI MAINTENANCE. ROADSIDE MANAGEMENT '90

Missouri's innovative management program which includes reduced mowing, herbicides and planting is described. The program, which has saved $2 million a year, has reduced accidents, improved turf quality, improved mowing efficiency and encouraged natural revegetation. Herbicide use has tripled in the last 3 years. About 300 employees are trained in the safe use of pesticides at the University of Missouri each year, and an in-house program is presented to field personnel. 'Adopt-a-highway' program has been a successful public awareness and involvement program. Inmate labor has also helped improve the roadside maintenance program. Four special landscape crews give higher concentration of roadside maintenance in highly developed areas.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Scranton Gillette Communications

  380 E Northwest Highway, Suite 200
  Des Planes, IL  United States  60016-2282
• Authors:
  • Heine, M
• Publication Date: 1990-2

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 32-33
• Serial:
  • Roads & Bridges
  • Volume: 28
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Scranton Gillette Communications
  • ISSN: 8750-9229
  • Serial URL: http://www.roadsbridges.com/rb/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Community action programs; Herbicides; Highway maintenance; Mowing; Roadside; Training
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Society; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00492269
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 1990 12:00AM