Section 106 review and compliance staffers from five State Historic Preservation Offices, including North Carolina's environmental review coordinator Renee Gledhill-Earley, took part in a panel discussion on transportation consultation and research needs as part of the mid-year meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Richmond, Virginia. They explored how state departments of transportation and historic preservation offices are addressing the huge numbers of post-World War II suburbs that need to be assessed as part of transportation projects, the use of programmatic agreements for different classes of projects, updating statewide inventories of highway bridges that are scheduled for replacement and dealing with the changing boundaries of historic battlefields. The audience was made up of state and federal transportation agency employees plus engineering and cultural resource consultants. To learn about an exceptionally creative mitigation strategy, the group visited Shirley Plantation, a National Historic Landmark, where dredge spoil from the replacement of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Washington, DC, was used to fill borrow sites to restore the nineteenth-century landscape of the historic property.