Large-scale roadside management pro...

Large-scale roadside management programs can slip into a shotgun approach with predictable results--lot of power and noise, if it be not that when the smoke clears, many of the targets are left standing. The vexed question often is that broad efforts with limited variation in techniques do not adequately address situations that may differ from common location to another.

Stephen Jone the great annoyance control adviser for the Alameda shire (Calif.) Public Works Agency, is experienced with Integrated great annoyance Management (IPM), the use of an assortment of nest regulate weapons care fully selected and aimed to fit each specific circumstance.

His tools include mechanical, biological, chemical and cultural pestilence control techniques. Jones and a staff of nine shire employees and 14 Conservation Corps set members control pests along 1000 miles of roadsides, 500 miles of flow control channels, 100 miles of railroad rights-of-way and in succession scores of vacant lots and landscaped areas.