Invasive hybrid cattails are removed to evaluate impacts on fish habitat. Researchers remove invasive hybrid cattails from six test sites to evaluate the impacts on water quality and fish habitat. The ...

ROSEAU RIVER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, Minn. — The contrast told the story. Part of the wall of cattails on the eastern edge of this massive wildlife management area had been sprayed by helicopter a ...

They caught my attention on one of my drives through the Whitewater valley earlier this winter. With a recent snowfall, the thousands of brown heads stood out with caps of white. Cattails are one of ...

Cattails have been described as the grocery store of the wild because every part of the plant is edible. During the growing season, three of these parts -- shoots, flowers and pollen -- provide easily ...

One of the more common wetland plants in our area that everyone seems to know are cattails. The scientific nomenclature for the common or broad leaf cattail is Typha latifolia. A now very common, ...

ROSEAU RIVER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, Minn. – The contrast told the story. Part of the wall of cattails on the eastern edge of this massive wildlife management area had been sprayed by helicopter a ...

Marshes ringed with cattails provide entertaining viewing opportunities in spring, when redwing blackbirds, yellow-headed blackbirds, Canada geese, mallards and many other bird species are nesting ...

I was at a home a number of years ago where I was invited by a member of the Kiwanis, an excellent service group, to see how this gentleman had worked with the conditions in his yard to provide a ...

With their surgical nibbles, these large, semi-aquatic, buck-toothed rodents have emerged as crucial helpers for ecologists restoring degraded wetlands across the Great Lakes. They are not the ...

In March I wrote about exploring three beaver ponds at my grandparent’s old farm property in New Hampshire. With the late winter ground and water still frozen it was easy for me to explore the edges ...

ROSEAU RIVER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, Minn. — The contrast told the story. Part of the wall of cattails on the eastern edge of this massive wildlife management area had been sprayed by helicopter a ...