Vegetation Management: What It Is and Why It Works

Vegetation management refers to the targeted control or elimination of unwanted vegetation like weeds, bushes, branches and trees. One common vegetation management practice for Tri-State is the removal of “danger trees”, which could be a tree that’s leaning towards our lines or is dead, decaying or could contact our lines.

Tri-State’s mission is to provide reliable, affordable and responsible energy to our members and that work includes planning ahead to avoid risks to our transmission system that can cause power outages. These power outages can be caused in many ways, such as: a car hit a pole, lightning struck a transformer or a storm caused a tree to come in contact with a line. While we can’t predict a car crash or mother nature taking its course, we can responsibly manage vegetation in our right-of-ways to help minimize risks from trees, branches and other types of vegetation that could interfere with our transmission lines and cause damage.