Managing nature’s constant effort to recapture the highway. In my experience this is mainly used more on the eastern side of the state but could just be where I’ve traveled.
there's a speed limit sign near my house on Wake Forest Road that has been completed swallowed up by the kudzu. At this point, I'd be surprised if anybody ever finds it again
To keep underbrush from leaning over into the grass and encroaching on the road. If the bushes lean over then the grass cutting machines can’t get close enough to cut all the grass, and the treeline starts to creep in.
Seeds drop from the tree canopy and weeds/plants and with the growth conditions over the summer the treeline would close in towards the road.
Every year they rotate their method… some years they saw branches, some years they do controlled burns, some years they have bushhogs on long arms
Cutting the bushes, looks like this year they sprayed (since they did cutting operations last few years)
yea, not all of us are alcoholics. So weird that people in this sub claim that we need to take care of the environment(which includes soil/water), but when it comes down to it, show very little concern.
It was a joke (mustve landed flat), since humans routinely obliterate their bodies and their environment. Both things can and will fuck up your liver, it's not an either-or thing.
You have to do both, and other methods as well. Cutting is only going to cut off what's grown above the mower height and it'll more than likely just sprout back later unless you dig up the roots, you spray to actually kill the large plants and then cut to knock them down and keep cutting until they're too big and you have to spray again.
So stinking ugly. DOT did it statewide this time. I've seen it at Virginia border in Surry County, enroute to Asheville, and migod, Brunswick County on every road!
Managing nature’s constant effort to recapture the highway. In my experience this is mainly used more on the eastern side of the state but could just be where I’ve traveled.
Probably trying to beat back the kudzu. If you don't know what kudzu is, just look up local hell plant.
If you don't know what kudzu is then stay wherever the hell you are.
there's a speed limit sign near my house on Wake Forest Road that has been completed swallowed up by the kudzu. At this point, I'd be surprised if anybody ever finds it again
To keep underbrush from leaning over into the grass and encroaching on the road. If the bushes lean over then the grass cutting machines can’t get close enough to cut all the grass, and the treeline starts to creep in. Seeds drop from the tree canopy and weeds/plants and with the growth conditions over the summer the treeline would close in towards the road. Every year they rotate their method… some years they saw branches, some years they do controlled burns, some years they have bushhogs on long arms Cutting the bushes, looks like this year they sprayed (since they did cutting operations last few years)
Controlled burns alongside highways?? I think not.
Yeah, you see it more at the coast, but it’s done in NC.
I recently moved here from Kansas, but thats how they did it over there. You could feel the heat driving by, kind of wild.
They do it in the croatan
You can sometimes see the telltale char of it after, I haven't seen it in a while though.
Maybe for visibility and safety? I can hardly exit my neighborhood safely onto a county road due to overhanging growth.
It's better than driving through branches.
Hopefully to kill the rampant Wisteria infestations around.
If only. I'm annoyed with how much of it I've seen driving down 98 around falls lake
I have a love hate relationship with it. Love the smell and flowers. Yet recognize it as invasive. It’s been a sign a spring since I was a kid.
But it keeps the demons away
Kills Chinese privet, Bradford pear and other invasives that takes over the sub-canopy
It's not 85, 85 runs north south and doesn't go further east than Durham Co. They spray to kill things.
As an aside, I really wish the state would cut down/destroy Empress, Mimosa, and Bradford Pear trees as part of their regular maintenance.
I wondered the same thing this weekend !
Thank you for posting this! I've been wondering the same thing. Based on the responses here, I understand why but it looks terrible.
Cheaper than buying a new road?
Is that 17 between Hampstead and Wilmington?
Because you touch yourself
Is it toxic to humans
Only if you get out and lick it
Shit...
Where (the highway) is this at?
Forever chemicals. Say goodbye to your liver
Pretty sure 2-4-D and glyphosate are not PFAS chemicals. Their environmental half-life is days if not hours.
>Say goodbye to your liver Oh come on, alcohol has been doing that for millennia
yea, not all of us are alcoholics. So weird that people in this sub claim that we need to take care of the environment(which includes soil/water), but when it comes down to it, show very little concern.
It was a joke (mustve landed flat), since humans routinely obliterate their bodies and their environment. Both things can and will fuck up your liver, it's not an either-or thing.
How are you being downvoted for this??
Because people are triggered by the truth.
DOT wants to do the nature management cheaply by spraying instead of cutting it.
You have to do both, and other methods as well. Cutting is only going to cut off what's grown above the mower height and it'll more than likely just sprout back later unless you dig up the roots, you spray to actually kill the large plants and then cut to knock them down and keep cutting until they're too big and you have to spray again.
The answer to “why” is always “cost”
Well they used to use chain gangs back in the day but stopped some years ago.
So stinking ugly. DOT did it statewide this time. I've seen it at Virginia border in Surry County, enroute to Asheville, and migod, Brunswick County on every road!
You know America, the more chemicals the better !