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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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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.

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

Chesterfield Township is partnering with Macomb County and other groups to treat invasive phragmites along roads in the community. The Chesterfield Township Board of Trustees voted 3-2 on March 26 to ...

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 ...