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Roadside Management

The Winnebago County Conservation Board's Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management (IRVM) program began in 1990 under Section 314.22 of the Code of Iowa. The program's objectives are to provide the public with safe, low-maintenance roadsides that are visually interesting, ecologically integrated, and useful for many purposes.

To meet these objectives the county's IRVM program plants attractive and well-adapted native vegetation in roadsides. Native vegetation is very competitive and, once established, will out compete unwanted noxious weeds. Mechanical mowing of newly-planted natives is usually conducted for the first several years after establishment.

The IRVM program also utilizes herbicides applied using a technique known as spot spraying, that only targets the noxious weeds. Prescribed fire is another tool that is used to promote and maintain native vegetation and reduce the encroachment of woody plant species in the roadside.

Prescribed fire is used only under controlled situations and under strict guidelines.


Come View the Following Roadsides When They're in Full Bloom--

Late Summer and Early Fall!

bullet County Road R20 between Buffalo Center and Rake
bullet The road leading into Rake from R20
bullet County Road R34 just north of County Road A42
bullet The road leading into Thorpe Park, five miles west of Forest City on 345th Street
bullet County Road A42 about two miles west of Forest City (between the two curves)
bullet County Road A44 just north of County Road A42
bullet County Road A44 just west of Highway 9/69
bullet County Road R74 just north of Highway 9
bullet County Road R74 just south of County Road A38
bullet County Road A34 just east of County Road R74, leading to the Rice Lake Golf Course
bullet County Road R60 just north of Scarville


Don't know what to look for in the roadsides?

Click on a flower below to see what our roadside wildflowers
look like and to learn a little about them!
(Information courtesy of enature.com.)

 


Wild Bergamot New England Aster Sunflower
Prairie Phlox Daisy Fleabane Goldenrod
Common Milkweed Coreopsis Purple Prairie Clover
Yellow Coneflower Yarrow Compass Plant
Prairie Phlox Bird's-foot trefoil Black-eyed Susan
Vervain Butterfly Weed Chicory
Common Mullein Oxeye Daisy Purple Coneflower
Blazing Star    




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