One of my pet peeves as a plant taxonomist comes up again when we look at this little plant, the yellow-eyed grass,” Xyris elliottii. Its common name suggests that it is a grass - but it is not a ...

Wetland restoration is a pressing conservation priority, but there are few replicated field studies that provide a scientific foundation for these activities. We conducted a 3-year, replicated field ...

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, ...

Hundreds of years ago, Baltimore's Inner Harbor had no ships, no piers, no electric scooters collecting barnacles in the water's murky depths. The water wasn't deep enough to lose objects in, let ...

July 23 -- One way to understand how estuaries are important to salmon is to watch how the fish respond as damaged habitats are restored. Long ago, dikes were installed at sites along Oregon's Salmon ...

Hunters are being paid $5 per nutria to eliminate the voracious wetland grass eaters along Louisiana's coast, through a $1.7 million federal-state program. Nutria damage Nutria, an invasive species ...

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) -- A few years ago, nine north-central Iowans gave up trying to farm land that wouldn't drain. They had installed agricultural drainage tiles every 60 feet in some fields and the ...

If you're wondering what's on fire in Pensacola, don't be alarmed. Escambia County's Natural Resources Conservation Division ...

BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) — The National Aquarium Harbor Wetland exhibit is coming to the Baltimore inner harbor area very soon. Last week, Visit Baltimore helped install wetland plants for the upcoming ...