How conservation non-profits can recruit and retain volunteers for exotic invasive plant control projects by Bruce Wenning Many non-profit conservation organizations struggle with well-intentioned ideas and plans about how to…
Invasive Plants
Tackling Invasives with a Tool Loan Program
by Melissa Brogle Invasive plants can have a detrimental impact on habitats and watersheds, including the Great Bay watershed in New Hampshire. However, to make their invasive control/removal efforts more…
From Invasive Lot to Native Garden
by David Smith This article first appeared in EcoRI News and is reprinted here with permission. Work will continue this summer on stabilizing a 2.6-acre undeveloped parcel owned by the…
Tree of Heaven: An Exotic Invasive Plant Fact Sheet
Please note that any use of glyphosate herbicide in any form should be considered as a last resort to minimize unintended environmental impact. by Bruce Wenning Common Name: Tree-of-heaven Plant…
Tree-of-Heaven Is No Angel
This article first appeared in EcoRI News, May 4, 2014. by ecoRI News staff A team of researchers led by a University of Rhode Island professor has completed a five-year…
Biological Control of Invasive Pests – An Overview
by Maria Bartlett Richard Casagrande, Professor of Entomology at the University of Rhode Island lectured on August 2, 2012 at Massachusetts Horticulture Society on “Biological Control of Invasives.” He covered…
Outsmart Invasives
by Julia Sullivan Anyone with a smartphone can help control invasive species in Massachusetts at the touch of a finger. Learn how by joining the Outsmart Invasive Species Project, a…
Black Swallow-wort Vincetoxicum nigrum – the Monarch Menace
by Rebecca Chizzo If you looked out over the wetland border and onto the Sudbury River in August of 2012, you would have seen a few determined souls cutting and…
Successfully Managing Phragmites
by Tim Simmons Non-native Phragmites has been described as perhaps the most widely distributed and abundant grass on earth. For more than 25 years I have observed Phragmites’ effects on…
Ripple Effect: Controlling Invasive Species in a Changing Climate
by Jed Winer Reprinted with permission from Research Next University of Massachusetts Amherst. As climate change causes species to move northward, ecologist Bethany Bradley is keeping a close eye on…
Japanese Barberry: An Exotic Invasive Plant Fact Sheet
by Bruce Wenning Common Name: Japanese barberry Plant Taxonomy: Family Berberidaceae. Genus Berberis. Species: Berberis thunbergii DC. (for C.P. Thunberg). (Magee and Ahles, 2007). Regulations: The importation, distribution, trade, and…
Lessons of GROVE
by Louise Barteau Chodoff GROVE is located in Carpenter Woods, a birding park in Philadelphia. It is a small scale restoration project that evolved from an art project that began…
