Abstract

Most original roads in Iowa and Kansas followed existing trails and traversed the tallgrass prairie. As long as prairie was adjacent to the roadside, seed was available to maintain prairie vegetation in disturbed rights-of-way.

Keywords:

• Iowa,
• prairie,
• roadsides,
• native,
• trails,
• tallgrass,
• turnpike,
• weed control,
• weeds,
• non-native,
• brome,
• herbicides,
• IRVM,
• Integrated roadside vegitation management