IVM Partners has Taken the Lead
We advise federal agencies and conservationists on best integrated vegetation management practices to restore habitat essential for survival of the Monarch butterfly, native bees and other pollinators, songbirds and wildlife.
CASE STUDIES
Assessing Pollinator Habitat Value
Utility Park Partnership for Reliability Habitat
LATEST NEWS
Application Nation: Increasing Biodiversity through Vegetation Management – November 21, 2025, Free Webinar Presented by Rick Johnstone
Pandora’s Box: The Pollinator Health Puzzle – 2023 CropLife America Pollinator Week Webinar Series with Rick Johnstone
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- PDF of Presentation also available: Pollinator Habitat Improvements using IVM
Rights-of-Way Are for the Birds: Managing power line corridors to help wildlife – Interview with Rick Johnstone
Rights-of-Way Management Annual Symposium Past Proceedings
How BGE Keeps the birds and bees happy with Integrated Vegetation Management
UIC leads largest nationwide effort to protect the monarch butterfly
Sustainably controlling weeds with glyphosate-based Roundup® products (Video)
Educational Field Tour on ANSI A-300 – Part 7
Integrated Vegetation Management
Partnership support from Bayer CropScience LP (Bayer), ENVU, and Syngenta to fund environmental sustainabil-ity research by IVM Partners to document best integrat-ed vegetation management practices that restore pollinator, bird and wildlife habitats on electric, natural gas, highway and railroad rights-of-way and on solar and wind farms. The multi-year project tracks botanical changes based on management techniques and quali-fies the relative nectar and pollen benefits to native bumble bees and lepidopterans (moths and butterflies) by using pollinator site value indices (PSVI). The re-search in upland and wetland ecosystems is shared at national and regional conferences and provided to State, Tribal and Federal agencies to guide habitat recommen-dations. (Read Press Release).
Presidential Memorandum — Creating a Federal Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators June 20, 2014
IVM Partners comments to the federal agencies on pollinators as a response to the federal strategy on pollinators that the President signed.
CASE STUDIES
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