Becoming Firewise: Prescribed Fire Strategies for Sustainable Rights-of-Way Management

This guide is designed to help managers of rights-of-way (ROW) in southeastern Canada begin taking a different approach to managing and restoring habitat. Roadsides, utility corridors, industrial lands, solar installations, wind farms and pipelines could all be managed to create and maintain a network of thousands of hectares of pollinator habitat. This guide aims to outline best practices for improved management of ROW to benefit pollinators, as well as practical methods of habitat restoration suitable for road and ROW use. By changing our management and increasing habitat restoration on ROW, the survival and recovery of pollinators and other wildlife can be supported at a broad scale.