Dense beds of Eurasian watermilfoil carpet the surface of Hancock Lake, a few miles east of Tomahawk, W.I., where undergraduate researchers Linden Taylor and Brigid Doyle have come to take samples of the invasive aquatic …
Eurasian water milfoil
How an Aquatic Invasion Transformed a Community’s Relationship with a Lake – and Each Other
by Sydney Widell As Dan Benson was enjoying the view of Upper Buckatabon Lake from his dock one morning, he noticed something in the water he’d never seen in the 20 years he’s lived on …
Notes from the Northwoods: Can Native Bugs Take Out Invasive Plants?
by AnnaKay Kruger Joe Bevington leans over the side of the boat and eyes the dense weeds in the water below us, watching green, long-feathered arms of Eurasian water milfoil move indolently with the current. …
Hand-to-Stem Combat with Invasive Species
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and The Nature Conservancy are currently undertaking a very hands-on project for invasive species control. The program also points to a question resource managers are currently asking – when …
Are We Thinking About Invasives All Wrong?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Gretchen Hansen, 608.221.6330, Gretchen.Hansen@wisconsin.gov Zebra mussels. Asian carp. Kudzu. Chances are you recognize these names as belonging to invasive species — plants or animals that are relocated from their native habitat …