Published guidance
Practical write-ups on ROW vegetation practice
Everything published here is free to read whether you are a member or not. Every piece carries a named author and their company, and shows the reasoning behind its conclusions. Where the evidence is thin, it says so rather than filling the gap with confidence.
Knowledge centre
The subjects this body covers
The consortium is starting with three subjects: IVM and habitat, safety, and procurement. The rest of the scope is listed below them and stays open. Published guidance is listed under the topic it belongs to, and topics with nothing under them yet say so.
Starting here
Prescribe
Integrated vegetation management
Managing toward a stable low-growing community rather than repeating a clearing cycle. Method selection and treatment sequencing, reducing mowing frequency, controlling invasives, and what the long-term cost case actually rests on.
Nothing published yet
Execute
Safety
What incidents across the industry teach, what caused them, and what would have changed the outcome. Slopes, remote-controlled equipment, chainsaw exposure, dead and hazard trees, heat and fatigue, herbicide handling, and the near misses that came first.
Nothing published yet
Prescribe
Procurement
How right of way work is specified, bid and awarded, and why the low bid so often costs more. RFP structure, contractor qualification, lifecycle cost against price per acre, and what those decisions leave field managers to deal with.
1 piece
Measure
Program cost
What a program actually costs across a full cycle rather than a budget year, where cost gets deferred rather than removed, and which measures reward the wrong behaviour.
Nothing published yet
Assess
Environmental stewardship
Habitat outcomes on managed right of way: monarch and pollinator habitat, invasive species, early-successional value, and conservation programs such as the Monarch CCAA. Also sensitive area handling and the compliance obligations that sit alongside it.
Nothing published yet
Also in scope
Execute
Mechanical clearing
Equipment selection against terrain and material, production expectations that survive contact with a slope, and where mechanical work should and should not be followed by treatment.
Nothing published yet
Document
Technology and data
Remote sensing, LiDAR, geospatial assessment and program management systems. What these tools measure, what they infer, and what should be asked of them before purchase.
Nothing published yet
Assess
Pipeline operations
Patrol and inspection access, integrity dig support, depth of cover and encroachment, and the operational obligations that make pipeline right of way a different problem from transmission.
Nothing published yet
Execute
Landowner relations
Notification, easement interpretation, restoration expectations and dispute handling. The part of the work least represented in any standard and most likely to stop a crew.
Nothing published yet
Document
Standards and regulation
What the written standards actually require, where they are silent — pipeline especially — and how regulation is changing across jurisdictions.
Nothing published yet