As the temperature neared 90 on a day in early June, Sara Rother revved up a weed-whacker and began to cut down the waist-high grass that blanketed the small island she stood on in the Mississippi ...

In hindsight, the managers of Davenport's Nahant Marsh say they should have moved more quickly. But when they first spotted a small stand of reed canary grass growing in the area across the water from ...

After a long and difficult battle against reed canary grass, an invasive plant species living along the Iowa River Corridor for decades, the Johnson County Department of Natural Resources says it has ...

The La Crosse District of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is accepting bids for the reed canary grass hay harvest on about 100 acres in three designated areas on the ...

One evening last week, my wife and I rode our bikes down the Red Cedar Trail. Lynne’s intent was to get a little exercise. My mission was to find something to write about for today’s column. The first ...

It’s almost spring. The first robins are singing. And the town of Manchester has started spreading sewage effluent over its new spray fields. The town started spraying water at the site March 1, but ...