RANGELEY — Volunteers for Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust patrolled more than 90 miles of shoreline in the Rangeley Lakes region last summer looking for invasive plants. Not one was been found. Taking to kayaks or canoes, teams of patrollers paddled along the shoreline mapping plants throughout August and September, when the plants are at peak. The […]
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Second invasive plant found in Cobbossee
MANCHESTER — State officials recently discovered European frogbit, an invasive water plant, growing in Maine for the first time. They found the infestation just outside Augusta, in the northeast corner of Cobbossee Lake in Manchester, and announced the discovery Wednesday. The news came just a week after the announcement that a different invasive plant, Eurasian […]
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Seminars on invasive plants scheduled
BATH — It takes little time for Cheri Brunault to find invasive plants in Sewell Woods, a conservation property in North Bath owned by the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust. Just a few steps from the entrance to the woods off Whiskeag Road is a healthy patch of multiflora rose, the clusters of petite white flowers […]
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Workshop on invasive upland plant identification and control
FARMINGTON — The Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District in conjunction with the Maine Forest Service will be holding an invasive plants workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, in room C-23 downstairs in Robert’s Learning Center at UMF. This training will help participants identify common upland invasive plants common to […]
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Gov. Paul LePage says no to 'noxious' spinach bill
AUGUSTA — Water spinach sounds like something Popeye would appreciate. But Gov. Paul LePage has a different take on the vegetable. A tasty green that’s long been a staple in Southeast Asia and Brazil, water spinach is listed as a federal noxious weed under the U.S. Plant Protection Act. As one of 112 federally recognized […]
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Maine using online tool to try to stamp out invasive plants
YARMOUTH (AP) — Maine is turning to crowdsourcing to chronicle the invasive plants that plague some of its natural areas. The state is gathering the data through its iMapInvasive website, which launched a year ago. The online tool allows residents to send photos of invasive plants they encounter on public or private land. Some 224 […]