Editors note -- This is the second in a two-part series on the invasive plant phragmites. Today's article will look at challenges in removing the plant, state regulations and natural remedies being ...

HAMPTON — A professor at the University of New Hampshire is teaming with the Audubon Society to conduct a two-year study involving the removal of an invasive plant — phragmites — in the town of ...

Utah County’s efforts to fight invasive plant growth of Phragmites Australis — the common reed — received a $113,088 boost from the state government. A grant from the Utah Department of Agriculture ...

The plants are problematic because they drink up vast quantities of water — up to 71,000 acre-feet from the Great Salt Lake ...

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - The United States Forestry Service recently awarded a grant to the Six Rivers Land Conservancy to assist in the organization's efforts to control phragmites in ...

National Park Service officials from all over the country teamed up this week to take on an ever-present pest on Assateague Island — phragmites. Phragmites australias, also called common reed, is an ...

A group of dissatisfied Turkey Point residents set up shop at the lakeside community’s Summerfest on Saturday to talk to the public about phragmites. Phragmites has been a topic of concern across the ...

BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Md. — Invasive phragmites has long been considered a wetlands villain by East Coast conservationists. But that conventional wisdom is changing; a growing school of ...

It has been five years since a major push began to fight the invasive, fire-prone Phragmites at Mentor Marsh, in an effort to restore biodiversity and more at the national natural landmark. Now there ...

Phragmites is a bad neighbor. “For years when you drove into our marina, all you saw was a giant wall of these invasive grasses completely blocking the view of the beautiful wetlands behind us,” said ...

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