Living Roadway Trust Fund

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In 1988, the Iowa Legislature established the Living Roadway Trust Fund (LRTF) within Iowa Code 314.21. The Iowa Department of Transportation administers this fund, including an annual, competitive grant program that provides funding for integrated roadside vegetation management (IRVM) activities to eligible cities, counties, and applicants with statewide impact. In doing so, the Iowa DOT and its partners promote and educate the public about the need for an integrated approach to managing the vegetation along Iowa's roadsides. This approach ensures that roadside vegetation is preserved, planted, and maintained to be safe; visually interesting; ecologically integrated; and useful for many purposes.

Iowa roadside vegetation

The LRTF’s funding sources include the Resource Enhancement and Protection Fund (REAP), Road Use Tax Fund, and utility access fees.

Since 1990, the LRTF has funded more than $17 million for research and demonstration projects, vegetation inventories, education and training programs, gateway landscaping, snow and erosion control, and roadside enhancement and maintenance.

Today, many of the IRVM resource professionals in Iowa doing the work established within Iowa Code 314.21 also serve as their county’s weed commissioner and work closely with Iowa’s mowing and noxious weed laws.

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