The main pond at Agua Caliente Park is getting a “haircut” this week — with crews removing a near-jungle of invasive cattails to reduce water use and dramatically increase the visible surface area of ...

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 ...

Biologists at Voyageurs National Park are counting on the voracious appetite of rodents to help contain a cattail invasion. Several decades ago, cattails with narrow leaves and short, brown flower ...

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 ...

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 ...