VegClear is Your Premier Industrial Vegetation Management Contractor: Precision. Compliance. Expertise.

IVM: What is Integrated Vegetation Management?

And the Role Herbicide Contractors Have in Maintaining Industrial Sites and Utility Right of Way Areas

IVM Integrated Vegetation Management as it pertains to Utility & Road Right of Way

Our Right of Way (ROW) division handles miles of road side, transmission line easements, 400+ location regional substation portfolios, individual 10+ acre sites, and smaller parcel industrial jobs. Whether it’s bulk acreage spraying, miles of foliage chemical mowing for visual clearance, or pipeline and utility right of way maintenance through both boom and precision chemical application, we have you, and your encroaching vegetation, covered.

Native Grass vs. Invasive Overgrowth

Overgrown utility Right of Ways (ROWs) are a detriment to native grass establishment and healthy habitat for local species. Therefore it is imperative to establish a routine invasive vegetation control program on these sites.

Common Problems we Solve: Mechanical methods are often destructive at the site of encroachment, as well as equipment access points, and can’t provide long term control of unwanted vegetation.

Our Approach: Herbicide application delivers effective, long lasting control of unwanted vegetation, and help increase native grasses and wildlife preferred forage on these areas.

Wide Area Foliar (ground broadcast): Selective or non selective control with minimal understory runoff and non-target damage. Best for medium-to high- density brush up to 7 feet in height.

Low-Volume Foliar (hand, backpack & precision boomless): Selectively treats individual foliage with precision on low to medium density and height brush to 16 feet of professional vertical coverage. Superior efficiency, minimal chemical load, increased labor use.

Roadside Boom Spraying: This is a highly sensitive application in which we test hundreds of herbicide combinations at various strengths, down to the half ounce of active ingredient per 100 gallons of tank mix. Imagine testing 300 plots, each with a unique blend of herbicide ingredients all at varied levels from .5 oz up to 10 oz. and tracking the progress of controlled vegetation over time. That's exactly what our in-house team of agronomists does to come up with ideal proprietary mixtures for roadside control. 

Cut Surface: Ideal for areas where professional mechanical equipment is unable to routinely reach. Post cut precision applications of commercial herbicides prevents resprouting. Mechanical cutting is required only once and stumps can be treated immediately, and up to a month later, so spray crews can caravan behind professional trim crews in lockstep. This is a commonly used method by contractors in kudzu abatement on commercial sites.

Basal bark: Low-profile and low impact on terrain, highly selective. Treats individual stems and stumps, ideal for low stem dense sites. Can be performed any time of year, and is often done in the cool/dormant season when other methods have to be paused until spring.

Bare ground, Soil Sterilant, and Soil Sterilization

Where no vegetation is a must, and therefore growth needs to be prevented by a professional, VegClear is your precise and cost effective contractor. VegClear Vegetation Management offers the following Bareground application services for commercial and government clients since they are often the best options on these property types:

• Vegetation management at manufacturing facilities and distribution centers

• Gravel weed control for fuel refineries and tank farms

• Bareground application along railroads, rail right of way, and switch yards

• Herbicides sprayed at power substations and service centers

• Industrial, self-storage, and auto storage grass and weed control

• Petroleum storage areas and propane tank yards requiring active total vegetation control

• Dirt and gravel, fence lines, and security fence clearance, weeds controlled with preemergence and postemergence herbicides

• Municipal vegetation contractor for roadsides, intersections, guardrails, and shoulders

• Prevention of weed growth that can impact the structural integrity of organic erosion-proof material (gravel, rocks, stone)

Benefits of Professional Bareground Blanket Applications:

• Herbicide applications are a lower annual investment with decreased ongoing cost/time than mechanical methods.

• Routine Treatments increase visitor, worker and public safety, assisting overworked maintenance crews.

• Weed free properties reduce breeding and homesteading of animal and insect pests.

• Applied Herbicides reduce water intrusion and damage from weeds on stored materials, buildings and property.

• Eradicated Weeds allow free flowing water drainage paths, eliminating blockages caused by vegetative growth.

VegClear provides professional herbicide services to businesses in the Southeast US and beyond. Our team is skilled in using both foliar and systemic herbicides to control weeds and manage vegetation on commercial properties. Foliar herbicides are applied directly to the leaves of plants and enter through the leaves, while systemic herbicides are absorbed by the roots or leaves and transported throughout the plant. We offer a range of herbicide solutions that are suitable for various property types and are available in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee