DRIVER: GIS Data Layer What Does Data Layer Us” Resulting Vegetation Management Strategy (Allows For :) “Tell TREATMENT HISTORY: Exact location & size, site access roads & trails, gates, landowner contact & Logistic planning, equipment utilization, and delivery of treatments restrictions, Site Details Slope & equipment restrictions, Land use, foreign utilities, poles, domestic wells, boreholes, Structures, unauthorized buildings, bridges, culverts, parking, Streams & watercourse buffers, wetlands, Rare species, invasive species, nesting raptors, migratory birds, Non compatible tree species, density, current height, Logistic planning, equipment utilization, and delivery of treatments Tree height below conductors date, time & temperature to calculate max sag – Vegetation Details MVCD, Compatible ground cover & brush species, density, % coverage Recommended treatment options Date, location, block size, buffer width, Ensures Compliance / assists with Future planning Transmission Herbicide application start time, wind speed, temperature, stop time, Treatment Record: Herbicide name, application rate, adjuvant name & mix ratio, applied volume, IVM Herbicide – Applicator names, permit #’s, certificate #’s Date, location, Ensures Compliance / assists with Future planning Herbicide name, application rate, adjuvant name & mix ratio, applied volume, Post-Treatment Audit Efficacy- % site occupied by Non-desirable tree species Follow-up treatment recommendations Dead Logistic planning, equipment utilization, and delivery of treatments Dead top & branches decline, decay, carpenter ants, woodpecker holes T-Line Inspection Erosion, high water table , uprooting Tree Defect Records Insect damage, species SAFETY: Contractor tree incidents by date, location, failure mode Identifies trends leading to safety violations & incidents Annual Temperatures Confirms annual High’s & Lows Better worker safety & training Poisonous plant locations Confirm locations & prevention measures Poisonous snake & spider locations Stinging insect species
DRIVER: GIS Data Layer What Does Data Layer “Tell Us” Resulting Vegetation Management Strategy (Allows For :) TREATMENT HISTORY: Transmission IVM – Herbicide Site Details Exact location & size, site access roads & trails, gates, landowner contact & restrictions, Slope & equipment restrictions, Land use, foreign utilities, poles, domestic wells, boreholes, Structures, unauthorized buildings, bridges, culverts, parking, Streams & watercourse buffers, wetlands, Rare species, invasive species, nesting raptors, migratory birds, Logistic planning, equipment utilization, and delivery of treatments Vegetation Details Non compatible tree species, density, current height, Tree height below conductors – date, time & temperature to calculate max sag MVCD, Compatible ground cover & brush species, density, % coverage Recommended treatment options Logistic planning, equipment utilization, and delivery of treatments Treatment Record: Date, location, block size, buffer width, Herbicide application start time, wind speed, temperature, stop time, Herbicide name, application rate, adjuvant name & mix ratio, applied volume, Applicator names, permit #’s, certificate #’s Ensures Compliance / assists with Future planning Post-Treatment Audit Date, location, Herbicide name, application rate, adjuvant name & mix ratio, applied volume, Efficacy- % site occupied by Non-desirable tree species Follow-up treatment recommendations Ensures Compliance / assists with Future planning T-Line Inspection Tree Defect Records Dead Dead top & branches decline, decay, carpenter ants, woodpecker holes Erosion, high water table , uprooting Insect damage, species Logistic planning, equipment utilization, and delivery of treatments SAFETY: Contractor tree incidents by date, location, failure mode Identifies trends leading to safety violations & incidents Better worker safety & training Annual Temperatures Confirms annual High’s & Lows Poisonous plant locations Confirm locations & prevention measures Poisonous snake & spider locations Stinging insect species
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