Tag: invasive plants

Marie Sigaud was studying bison behavior in Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan when she observed some strange behavior. While the bison (Bison bison bison) spent their days in the...

At a recent House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture hearing, witnesses offered testimony on invasive species like nutria and feral swine and their effects on agriculture and...

Invasive plants quickly take over land from native plant species and eventually reduce the amount of native animals in the area, according to a pair of recent studies. “It’s almost...

Forests infested with privet invoke a kind of despair in people attuned to the problem of invasive plants. Privet invades a forest quickly, sprawling across the understory and growing into...

Anecdotal evidence of invasive bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) being associated with declining populations of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) has been widely circulated. But researchers at the University of Georgia wanted to...