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 ...

Invasive phragmites are tall, grass-like plants that are spreading rampantly throughout Ontario and nearby regions in Canada. According to The Weather Network, the Ontario Phragmites Action Program ...

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The fall bird migration is winding down, and as the traveling birds cross the United States, many of them stopped at wetlands. Chances are they saw areas dominated by a tall reed with a big, fluffy ...

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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