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Roadside Habitat Enhancement Coalition

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The Roadside Habitat Enhancement Coalition attended a meeting of the KDOT Superintendent’s in Wichita on Oct. 22. The coalition includes Troy Schroeder (President of the Kansas Wildlife Federation), Ron Klataske (Audubon of Kansas), Jordan Martincich, Steve Riley and Zac Eddy (Pheasants Forever) Chip Taylor (Monarch Watch), and Fred Coombs & Krista Dahlinger (Kansas Native Plant Society). The meeting was designed to convince the KDOT to recognize the importance and benefits that unmowed roadside vegetation provide for wildlife, esthetics and economic savings. Kansas Integrated Roadside Management is one of the Kansas Wildlife Federation’s resolution for 2014. To read the resolution visit

< http://www.kswildlife.org/ww/kansas-integrated-roadside-management/>.