Development of an Integrated Resource Management Strategy for Transmission Right-of-Way Corridors for Successful Implementation of Integrated Vegetation Management in California

摘要

Pacific Gas and Electric manages 18,000 miles of transmission lines in California within fivegeneral bioregions that extend from the coastal areas to the Sierra Nevada/Cascades. The de-velopment of an integrated resource management (IRM) strategy through the use of integratedvegetation management (IVM) techniques, have reduced environmental and social conflicts. Veg-etation managers are actively promoting the benefits of IRM to ecological, cultural, and economicresources 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 integratedvegetation management methods to provide safe and reliable energy while maintaining posi-tive property owner relationships. Using IVM to accomplish IRM successfully integrates a widerange of environmental issues as well property owner concerns. A matrix of IVM techniques isdescribed to show how desired vegetation types can be established and maintained.