A letter to the editor sent into the Chesterfield Observer presents an earnest plea for the use of more resources in preventing the spread of hydrilla. “Anyone who observes, as I have at close range,…
The Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council is optimistic in the fight against phragmites australis in their area. The region, which hosts a native variety of the common reed, has had a phragmites control…
Spiny water flea, Bythotrephes longimanus While some news agencies have been decrying the introduction of the invasive spiny water flea into Lake Champlain as an ecological disaster, Vermont…
Lake Tahoe, from Nevada (wikimedia.org) According to the Secchi disk recently dunked in Lake Tahoe, the lake's water clarity has improved. First used in the mid-1800s by Angelo Secchi, an…
Since avian vacuolar myelinopathy, or AVM, was discovered in 1994, 76 dead eagles and hundreds of coots and other water birds at Thurmond Lake in Georgia have been attributed to the disease. The full…
Phragmites australis (wikimedia.org) Maureen Pfaller, program director at the Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay, knows the importance of catching phragmites early. "It takes over…