Deer Preferences Helping Non-native Invasive Plants Spread
April 28, 2016 - Selective browsing by white-tailed deer likely is promoting the spread of some invasive plant species in northeastern U.S. forests, as deer avoid eating vegetation they find unpalatable... read more
Volunteers Pull Invasive Plants on Earth Day
April 23, 2016 - The Darvill Trail on the south side of Little Mountain was alive Friday with the songs of birds and the voices of volunteers hard at work in honor of Earth Day. The crew, including Emerson High School students and teachers and Skagit Land Trust staff and volunteers, spent the morning in the lush forest of ferns and towering trees pulling, digging and clipping plants called invasive species... read more
Baseball Bats Threatened by Invasive Beetle
April 5, 2016 - The supply of ash in the United States is under threat, and with it, the iconic Louisville Slugger. The culprit: an invasive beetle called the emerald ash borer... read more
The Curse of the Bradford Pear
March 29, 2016 - All those white blooming trees you see everywhere... do you think they are pretty? If you knew what they actually represent, you would choke on your morning coffee and gag on your scrambled eggs. All those white blooming trees you see now are an environmental disaster happening right before your very eyes... read more
Michigan grant to help fight invasive plants
March 30, 2016 - The Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program recently awarded a two-year, approximately $254,000 grant to the Lake St. Clair Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area... read more
Invasive Plants Spreading Near Doe Farm in Durham
March 20, 2016 - Invasive plants in parts of the Doe Farm forest have been spreading in recent years, and the town of Durham is planning a response... read more
Arbor day celebrations at NC Farmers Market
February 29, 2016 - The Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University invites the public to their Arbor Day Celebration on March 19, 2016. The NC-IPC will be distributing information at this event... read more
"Hairy Panic" Grass Takes Over Town in Australia
February 18, 2016 - Photos have emerged of a small town in rural Australia buried in a bizarre type of grass.The so-called 'hairy panic' grass has engulfed Wangaratta's homes, gardens and garages. And as fast as residents get rid of it, it just rolls right back in... read more
Invasive Plants Yield Unintended Consequences
February 7, 2016 - The plant that ate the South seemed like a good idea at the time. During the 1930s Dust Bowl, the federal government recommended plants that would limit soil erosion. Kudzu, which had been introduced from Asia at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, had been a well-behaved ornamental vine for decades... read more
