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TWDC stocking grass carp in Woodland Waterway
Houston: Officials with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have given The Woodlands Development Company the green light to add triploid grass carp to The Woodlands Waterway to help address water quality issues.
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DBW Begins Herbicide Treatment in the Delta for Water Hyacinth and Egeria Densa
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) will begin herbicide treatment of water hyacinth and Egeria densa on March 1 in various areas of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) . . .
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Journal of Aquatic Plant Management – Volume 55, 2017
Below are the article titles for JAPM for 2017.
Note that only the abstracts for the articles are available online, except for open access articles which have the full pdf available. Complete articles are available online after two years.
APMS members may view the full PDF files of current issues by logging in under the Members Only tab on the home page and clicking on the Current Journal Articles tab.
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Officials concerned: ‘Noxious’ invasive weed found in Cayuga Lake near Aurora
NewYorkUpstate.com
Aurora, NY.– Hydrilla, a potentially harmful invasive water plant, has been discovered in Cayuga Lake near Wells College.
Bunnings busted selling weed
Herald Sun – Australia
THE incorrect labelling of a highly invasive aquatic weed has exposed a plant wholesaler to nearly $120,000 in fines…
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Salvinia in Shreveport’s drinking water supply
KTBS
“We had a dog that thought it was the grass and walked straight into the lake,” Roberts recalled.
Read more: http://www.ktbs.com/story/33162654/salvinia-in-shreveports-drinking-water-supply
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Plant-Munching Weevil Helps Botswana Contain Weeds Threatening to Overwhelm the Okavango
Three decades after the first reports of the arrival in Botswana of Salvinia molesta–a pestilential free-floating, mat-forming water fern native to Brazil–scientists …say they are at last prevailing in the struggle against the weed.
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Water chestnut taking over waterways
Manchester Journal Outdoors (Vermont)
Water chestnut (Trapa natans) is now found in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and eastern Canada. See two short videos on this invasive aquatic weed.
Read more here:
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Scugog Lake Stewards launch research project to document aquatic plants in Lake Scugog
durhamregion.com (Ontario, Canada)
SCUGOG — A research and monitoring project spearheaded by Dr. Ron Porter of the Scugog Lake Stewards officially hit the water on May 26 when a small crew set out on a half-day expedition of Lake Scugog to examine the contents of the township’s crown jewel. “We were very surprised to find major changes in the aquatic plants from just a year before,” recalled Dr. Porter of the initial findings.
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Panel OKs use of poison to kill pond plants
Opponents rue damaging side-effects of herbicides
- Eagle-Tribune
- By Terry Date tdate@andovertownsman.com
- May 28, 2016
ANDOVER — Sometime between mid- and late-June a state-approved contractor will spray herbicides at Field and Collins ponds in the Harold Parker State Forest to kill invasive plants, a first step in a controversial treatment plan that may call for future herbicide uses.
Read more here.
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