Roadside Vegetation
Roadside Vegetation is vegetation located along a roadside. The term is typically reserved for naturally occuring vegetation adjacent to a rural road rather than street trees or other vegetation planted within a nature strip.
Photo by Lisa Smallbone, Charles Sturt University
Roadside vegetation can be both a valuable asset providing shelter and food for native animals, and a liability as a fire hazard, by reducing motorists' sight distances at intersections and by obscuring road furniture such as guideposts.
It can be managed in a number of ways, including:
- Grazing of Livestock on Roadsides
- Herbicide Spraying
- Roadside Grass and Weed Control
- Roadside Slashing
Many Councils have a Roadside Vegetation Management Plan.