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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KINGSTON, Mass. (AP) — Asa Peters marched ...

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KINGSTON, Mass. (AP) — Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation down to size.