by boxcar-admin | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog, News
The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is now inviting applications for competitive grant funding. Through the 2014 competitive grant process, the GLRI spent more than $5 million to prevent and control invasive species in the Great Lakes, including many of the... Continue Reading
Filed under: funding habitat restoration
by boxcar-admin | Jul 13, 2015 | Blog
July 13, 2015 Kimberly Bourke, U.S. Geological Survey, Contractor Wesley Bickford, U.S. Geological Survey, Pathways Trainee, PhD student at University of Michigan Although non-native Phragmites australis reigns supreme in terms of publicity, it is important... Continue Reading
Filed under: management monitoring native phragmites Research U.S. Geological Survey
by boxcar-admin | Jun 1, 2015 | Blog
June 1, 2015 Bob Williams, Phragmites.org When I began invasive Phragmites management on my property about ten years ago, the only available advice for treatments came from government agencies treating large scale properties. It was great advice, based on decades of... Continue Reading
Filed under: herbicide landowners management Michigan volunteers
by boxcar-admin | May 26, 2015 | Blog
May 26, 2015 Bob Williams, Phragmites.org The biggest problem I have encountered when trying to manage invasive Phragmites occurs after the first year of treatment, because the second and third years require more specific treatment. The first year is easy, because... Continue Reading
Filed under: herbicide landowners management Michigan
by boxcar-admin | May 18, 2015 | Blog
May 18, 2015 Bob Williams, Phragmites.org Some people believe that cutting invasive Phragmites helps it grow because the stand looks healthier; you see green growth, the brown dead material is all gone and the stand looks stronger than ever. In actuality, research... Continue Reading
Filed under: herbicide landowners management Michigan
by boxcar-admin | May 4, 2015 | Blog
May 4 2015 Chuck Miller, Clay Township Phragmites Advisory Board Establishing a sustainable Phragmites management program depends on commitment from stakeholders. This commitment can be supported by helping stakeholders see the benefit of concerted action in their... Continue Reading
Filed under: funding landowners management Michigan partnerships Permits volunteers
by boxcar-admin | Mar 27, 2015 | Blog
James F. White, Dept. of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Mónica S. Torres, Dept. of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Marcos Antônio Soares, Dept. of Botany and Ecology, Universidade... Continue Reading
Filed under: Research
by boxcar-admin | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog, Project Profiles, Success Stories
Linda Nelson and Andrew Kornacki, U.S. Army Corps of EngineersMarch 2015Phragmites australis (common reed) is one of the most troublesome invasive plants encountered on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) aquatic ecosystem restoration projects. The USACE Buffalo,... Continue Reading
by boxcar-admin | Feb 22, 2015 | Blog
William Parkus, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments February 2015 Southeast Michigan’s natural resources are significant but are under siege from the aggressive Phragmites australis, which is infesting the landscape and threatening our recreation-based... Continue Reading
Filed under: CISMA management Michigan wetlands
by boxcar-admin | Jan 20, 2015 | Blog
Claude Lavoie, PHRAGMITES Research Group, Université Laval, Québec, CanadaJanuary 2015Climate warming will likely affect flooding regimes, which have a large influence on the functioning of riparian wetlands. Low water levels predicted for the St. Lawrence River... Continue Reading
Filed under: climate change management Research