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 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.

As previously mentioned, native phragmites is often confused as an invasive, and as a result, many have unknowingly removed native stands. In order to avoid this, look for the distinguishing ...

Phragmites is a bad neighbor. “For years when you drove into our marina, all you saw was a giant wall of these invasive grasses completely blocking the view of the beautiful wetlands behind us,” said ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost everybody can recognize phragmites, even if they don’t know its name. A grass that grows eight feet tall and covers thousands of acres of wetlands, and not-so-wetlands, in New Jersey is hard 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 ...