Join fall workdays to help remove invasive buckthorn from Kettle Moraine State Forest. All experience levels welcome.

Like other invasive plants, the buckthorn bush "grows and spreads quickly, sprouting leaves before native plants, shading ...

The goats from Drifty Acres Farm and Regenerative Ruminants in the village of Poplar are on Round 2 of buckthorn and ...

Ueltzen said when buckthorn plants die, they increase the nitrogen on the ground, leading to a jump in arthropod populations ...

Once an invasive species takes root, it is nearly impossible to fully eradicate. Researchers make key breakthrough in fight ...

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While many of us love new green additions in our yards and gardens, there are some plants we want to avoid, especially the invasive ones. These non-native intruders typically invade an area, taking ...

The magenta-pink flower spikes of the invasive purple loosestrife plant are currently along many roadsides. The Wetlands Walk ...

The story on the decline of butterflies in the Midwest is an important story — another marker of declining diversity in the ecosystem ("Butterflies in ‘precipitous decline’ across Midwest," Aug. 6).

Buckthorn needs to be treated with herbicides or, if the native plant population in the area is healthy enough, destroyed as part of a prescribed burn.