Thanks to a $10,000 grant, the new Rideau Valley Phragmites Management Area (RVPMA) will form a working group to share ...

Phragmites Australis might look like a sea of swaying tall grasses in the sun — massive and golden, nearly biblical — but as they clog up scenic views and cause issues for local wildlife on Belle Isle ...

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 ...

It's found along highways, ditches, and shorelines in southern Ontario, and it can grow to staggering heights, sometimes towering more than five metres above the ground. It's invasive phragmites, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Maryland’s wetlands are under attack — not from an animal or human activity, but from a single, aggressive grass species. Phragmites australis is an invasive species of grass in Maryland that has ...

And now, a kind word about one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most hated invasive plants: phragmites. The tall, feathery-plumed marsh reed is the bane of waterfowl lovers around the Chesapeake Bay region, as ...

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.

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 ...