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Nebraska Department of Transportation

A rural asphalt road is flanked by crops.

Local crops could provide green solution for blacktop repair

July 30, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Shane Tucker (right), highway salvage paleontologist with the NU State Museum, directs the museum’s education interns in the process of wet screening for microfossils. The method is one of many used to search for specimens as part of the Highway Paleontology Program.

Fossil Week display celebrates 60-year partnership

October 12, 2020

Science & Technology

In addition to visual aesthetics, the main reason the Nebraska Department of Transportation seeds roadsides is to establish vegetation cover and prevent erosion, which is required by the federal government.

Study explores value of Nebraska’s roadside restoration efforts

May 10, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska's Kayla Mollet searches for pollinators in a roadside planting area south of Union. The master's student is leading a project to help better define best practices for planting wildflowers along Nebraska roadways.

Student-led research expands knowledge of pollinator habitats

August 15, 2018

Agriculture & Environment