The warm spring has created above normal pond water temperatures. Many pond owners are experiencing higher than desired levels of unwanted plants due to the warmer than normal springtime weather. Pond ...

Also known as reeds or pencil reeds, bulrushes are considered a valuable part of a lake’s ecosystem. They grow in marshes and along shorelines of lakes and ponds up to eight feet deep and can rise ...

Summer is the time of year when pond weeds become most noticeable, interfering with fishing, boating, swimming and the aesthetic qualities of water. There are numerous pond weeds that occur, but ...

LEE — A decision on the use of herbicides for the next three years in Laurel Lake will have to wait until April. A joint hearing of the Lee and Lenox conservation commissions for a three-phased ...

More than 50 years ago, developers committed one of the greatest injuries to Lake Tahoe — dredging the lake’s largest natural wetland to build the Tahoe Keys development — 1,500 homes with canals for ...

The Sanford Lake Improvement Board unanimously approved another three-year interval of weed control for the lake Thursday night. Three resolutions were passed after a public hearing was closed and a ...

Runaway moss growth can make pond fishing about as exciting as, well, watching moss grow. According to Dr. Michael Masser, Texas Cooperative Extension fisheries specialist, aquatic vegetation is the ...

CHESHIRE — Got a use for vallisneria, also known as tape grass or eelgrass? Well, the people who live on the 300-acre north basin of Cheshire Reservoir don’t either. Vallisneria, the newest invasive ...

The chemical weed-control program is set to begin Tuesday. Houghton Lake Improvement Board member Dick Pastula said notices of the intended treatment were to be posted around the lake beginning ...

Avista will begin drawing down Lake Spokane between Long Lake and Nine Mile Dams on Wednesday to allow for weed control and for nearby homeowners to make repairs on the shore starting this Wednesday.

Invasive aquatic weeds are spreading in Lake Tahoe, and officials are considering the first-ever use of herbicides in Tahoe to contain the problem, which stems from a man-made lagoon and marina called ...