NEWBURY — Four local men have a plan to eradicate “phragmites ignorance.” This invasive common reed (phragmites australis) spreads quickly, out-competes native plants and is infamous among those ...

OGDEN BAY, Utah — Fires were set in an effort to get rid of phragmites, a highly invasive grass that is choking wetlands along the Great Salt Lake. Airboats maneuvered through wetlands as firefighters ...

Keith Hambrecht vividly recalls his first experience with the bane of American wetlands, a tall, dense reed called phragmites. "I didn't know what it was at the time," he says, remembering working on ...

An invasive species of marsh grass that spreads, kudzu-like, throughout North American wetlands, may provide similar benefits to protected wetlands as native marsh grasses. According to new research ...

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 ...

Tall reeds with tiny purple blooms that turn to khaki-colored fluff once seeds are released look like pretty landscaping lining Oakland County’s roadsides and medians. But these plants, known as ...

The campaign to reduce invasive plants such as phragmites and knotweed along Oakland County roads has resumed. The county road commission and the Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (CISMA) ...

n Editor's note: This is a continuation story from Wednesday's weed management article concerning the project to spray phragmites in the Platte River. At Tuesday's open meeting of the West Central ...

As previously mentioned, native phragmites is often confused as an invasive, and as a result, many have unknowingly removed native stands. In order to avoid this, look for the distinguishing ...

Head of the Harbor Mayor Douglas Dahlgard is weighing action against an invader: phragmites australis, a fast-growing reed producing dense stands around Stony Brook Harbor. Dahlgard, state ...

If there is a singular physical characteristic that makes our local coast unique, it is the Great Marsh. There is nothing else like it in the region; indeed its closest rival can be found far to the ...