Power lines zig-zag across North America, strung between towers that rise 100 feet or more into the sky. Beneath lie vast swaths of often barren land up to 100 feet wide and stretching for hundreds of miles.    “I think that there’s an incredible opportunity to use these really large tracts of land that cross our landscapes for good,” says Eliza Meyer, program administrator for the Right-of-Way Stewardship Council (ROWSC). Founded in 2013, ROWSC provides accreditation to power companies that work to improve the biodiversity of the land along utility corridors (under power lines or above pipelines). That’s easier said than done. In order to protect power lines and give access to utility crews to maintain the grid and the electrical power we rely on, the land may well be bulldozed and have herbicide applied to it to clear the right-of-way (ROW) of vegetation. The post The Ecological Havens Flourishing Beneath Power Lines appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.