phragmites

They use the phragmites for shelter, but it is not optimal.

"The single use of an herbicide to control that won't change what brought the phragmites."

The survey recorded that the site is a 'Phragmites dominated area with open water'.

The remediation, which focused on the phragmites problem, was designed by one of the area's best environmental companies.

People make crafts such as baskets with a reed called Phragmites.

"And there's not much that can take over phragmites."

Workers dug six feet underground to remove the roots of the phragmites.

"I would love to create a new invasive species that runs wild through phragmites and doesn't eat anything else," he said.

Much of the moor is covered by the common reed ('Phragmites').

But to the residents of New Square, the phragmites are a blessing.

This site had been disturbed by previous owners and was already converting to phragmites.

And he has traced nutrients from the phragmites into killifish.

"We found out people resisted the idea of removing the phragmites," he said with a chuckle.

Numerous parts of Phragmites can be prepared for consumption.

Phragmites are thick weeds that crowd out animal life.

On an adjacent site still covered with Phragmites, each square meter yielded an average of only 107.

The invasive species, Phragmites, were brought from Europe with early settlers.

One of the ponds was so choked with phragmites that almost all the other plants and animals had been pushed out.

We take out phragmites to keep a flow moving in and out of the tidal wetlands.

The expansion of phragmites in this area is worrisome because the species had never been so invasive that far down the river.

Nearly every waterbank and marsh in the region is surrounded by towering phragmites.

The tall brown reeds that cover most of the Meadowlands are phragmites, or the common reed.

"Those are very, very negative aspects of phragmites," Weinstein said.

Professor Blossey is now working on biological control of phragmites, by finding an insect that will eat them.

She filled the inside with layers of sand and dead phragmites reeds, making a bed for beach grass to grow.