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• State budget has hydrilla money
• Woodstock Township board votes for harvesting, no herbicide use
• Scientists developing poison pill for Asian carp
• Herbicide, weed-eating carp tackle hydrilla in Spring Bayou
• Banned aquatic weed 'Salvinia' found in Northland
• JCC taking own approach to Roseberry weed issue

State budget has hydrilla money Posted: 29 Mar 2012 01:14 PM PDT Source: ithacajournal.com (New York) Date Published: 03/29/2012 The new state budget includes $800,000 to help local efforts to stop the invasive aquatic plant hydrilla, which was found last year in Cayuga Inlet, Ithaca-area state senators announced Wednesday. READ MORE

Woodstock Township board votes for harvesting, no herbicide use Posted: 29 Mar 2012 01:13 PM PDT Source: Daily Telegram (Adrian, Michigan) Date Published: 03/14/2012 WOODSTOCK TWP., Mich. —- The Woodstock Township board voted 4-1 on Monday in favor of mechanical harvesting to address the problem of invasive plant species in Devils Lake. READ MORE

Scientists developing poison pill for Asian carp Posted: 29 Mar 2012 12:00 PM PDT Source: Chicago Tribune Date Published: 03/27/2012 Biologist Jon Amberg has spent the last two years obsessed with fish guts, laboring over a singular challenge: Develop a poison pill that will kill Asian carp and leave other fish unscathed. READ MORE

Herbicide, weed-eating carp tackle hydrilla in Spring Bayou Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:54 AM PDT Source: TheTownTalk.com (Louisiana) Date Published: 03/28/2012 SPRING BAYOU -- Louisiana biologists are fighting hydrilla, an invasive aquatic weed that grows into dense mats near the surface of water, in Spring Bayou in Avoyelles Parish. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says it is fighting the fast-growing plant by stocking the bayou with grass carp, which feed on the weed. READ MORE

Banned aquatic weed 'Salvinia' found in Northland Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:52 AM PDT Source: Voxy News Engine (New Zealand) Date Published: 03/26/2012 A banned aquatic weed that forms dense mats that can double in size in days and pose a drowning risk has been discovered in two home garden ponds in Northland, prompting a warning from biosecurity experts. Salvinia (Salvinia molesta) was thought to have been officially eradicated from the region, however, Northland Regional Council biosecurity staff have in recent weeks stumbled across the plant in both the Hikurangi area, near Whangarei, and near Okaihau in the Far North District. READ MORE

JCC taking own approach to Roseberry weed issue Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:54 AM PDT Source: The Daily Sentinel (Scottsboro, Alabama) Date Published: 03/27/2012 The Jackson County Commission is apparently taking a wait and see approach on an invasive aquatic weed problem in the Roseberry Creek embayment at Scottsboro. READ MORE

 

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