An invasive aquatic plant that crowds out native species and impacts boating and fishing has been found in the St. Lawrence River near Ogdensburg. The invasive water chestnut forms dense mats of ...

Describing the action of non-native invasive plants in the environment can sound like the stuff of a science fiction movie plot. The aliens land here from far away foreign lands and soon take over ...

The water chestnut, an aquatic invasive species, was found last summer in Dead Creek, also known as Scomotion Creek, on the north end of Plattsburgh. Water chestnut is best controlled by physically ...

The mat of invasive water chestnut as seen from the channel. The channel is more than a mile-and-a-half long and 1,000 feet wide. Tom Shannon paddles through the channel volunteers in Germantown have ...

Greenwood Lake officials are calling on the community to help fight an invasive species that has again begun taking over the lake. They are adding to their battle plan to manage this year's explosion ...

Employees from Western New York Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management have found water chestnuts in the Chautauqua Lake Outlet. The group was surveying areas where water chestnut had ...

A photo of water chestnut trapa bispinosa, a now invasive species potentially linked to Canada geese traversing northern Virginia. (Courtesy, USGS/Dept. of the Interior) Efforts are ramping up to root ...