As the temperature neared 90 on a day in early June, Sara Rother revved up a weed-whacker and began to cut down the waist-high grass that blanketed the small island she stood on in the Mississippi ...

One evening last week, my wife and I rode our bikes down the Red Cedar Trail. Lynne’s intent was to get a little exercise. My mission was to find something to write about for today’s column. The first ...

The control of introduced plants is frequently a demanding and expensive activity for wildlife managers. It can be difficult to suppress some well-established species, and control measures may harm ...

After a long and difficult battle against reed canary grass, an invasive plant species living along the Iowa River Corridor for decades, the Johnson County Department of Natural Resources says it has ...

In hindsight, the managers of Davenport's Nahant Marsh say they should have moved more quickly. But when they first spotted a small stand of reed canary grass growing in the area across the water from ...

Disturbances that intensify with agriculture and/or urban development are thought to promote the spread of invasive plants, such as the clonal perennial reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea L). To ...

It’s almost spring. The first robins are singing. And the town of Manchester has started spreading sewage effluent over its new spray fields. The town started spraying water at the site March 1, but ...

A five-year research project has come up with a way of generating green energy from a humble everyday grass. A five-year research project has come up with a way of generating green energy from a ...

The La Crosse District of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is accepting bids for the reed canary grass hay harvest on about 100 acres in three designated areas on the ...

Tim Esary gazed at lush vegetation along Burnt Bridge Creek in central Vancouver and remembered what the area looked like more than a decade ago. “Just a field of reed grass,” said Esary, whose title ...

Research by the Bio-Re-Gen (Biomass, Remediation, re-Generation) project team at Teesside University has revealed that reed-canary grass can be turned into an excellent fuel for biomass power stations ...