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 ...

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The purpose of the study was to develop scientific methods for monitoring the effectiveness of herbicide spraying as a management technique for controlling the invasive species Phragmites australis.

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 ...

A prescribed burn is conducted at the Ogden Bay Wildlife Management Area in western Weber County on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. The burn targeted invasive Phragmites reeds. A prescribed burn is conducted ...

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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) ...

Almost everybody can recognize phragmites, even if they don’t know its name. A grass that grows eight feet tall and covers thousands of acres of wetlands, and not-so-wetlands, in New Jersey is hard to ...

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 ...

Wetlands managers have spent years using fire and chemicals to fight phragmites, an invasive reed that chokes everything else out. But coaxing... You might beat back phragmites, the scourge of ...