Native Wildflowers Roadside Signs of Hope: Wildflowers and the Federal-Aid Highway Program

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Contributors:
  Harper-Lore, Bonnie
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Roadside flora
  • Wildflowers
  • Grasses
  • Native plants
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-EP-04-005
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  Roadsides are one of those places. While our natural heritage is under pressure from invasive plants and diseases, development, agriculture, mining, and more, the nation has an opportunity to protect the pieces and restore the rest. This opportunity is recognized by the Federal-Aid Highway Program along with State highway and other land-managing agencies. Protecting the natural heritage that exists on some roadsides from invasives as well as restoring native diversity to highly disturbed projects, serves as one of those "many different places" where species can be saved. Native plants along our nation's roadsides do more than provide visual beauty. They also create a sense of place, provide habitat for wildlife, stabilize highway slopes, and act as a buffer to precious natural areas. Highways give us access to the diversity of nature, seasonal color changes, the richness of our culture, the gracefulness of the landscape, the draw of the horizon, geological surprises, many water wonders, regional character, a window to the past, and a glimpse of the future. Views from the highway also reveal so much about us all.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/66025/dot_66025_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.31 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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