How Native Plants Can Beat Buckthorn Minnesota's native grasses and wildflowers can play a pivotal role in beating back the ...

The new potential ally is crown rust, or Puccinia coronata, a fungus found on most buckthorn plants in the state. Crown rust is a notorious attacker of wheat, oats and barley that's been studied ...

"It's literally mushroom soup," he says. Stone, an undergraduate majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology, is living proof that you don't have to wait until you graduate to tackle the complex ...

Goats may very well be the greatest of all time—GOATs, literally and figuratively!—when it comes to controlling the spread of invasive buckthorn. Easy to transport, able to access dense growth areas ...

From the coast to mountains and from mild climates to nearly arctic conditions, Maine encompasses more than a hundred types ...

The leaves of a buckthorn tree are seen at the Kilborn Allotment Gardens in Ottawa on May 23. Birds and other wildlife eat the small berries, helping it to spread. (Gabrielle Huston/CBC) ...

Funded by the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network and Conservation Fund, 48 goats will graze on 8 parcels of land, owned ...

Purchasing invasive plants online may be way easier than you think 02:25. As Minnesotans gear up for the growing season, the University of Minnesota has a warning about where you buy your plants.

And they’re looking at other invasive species, too, plants like honeysuckle and common buckthorn that also take over the understory of forests to see, can we find this connection between ticks and ...

Buckthorn is nasty stuff but it’s no match for a determined community of volunteers. Determined volunteers attacked the buckthorn invading the Webb Park forest and Popple Nature Area in ...

ASHWAUBENON — First, buckthorn looks like a pea shoot. Then, it turns into a tree that soaks up the sun in its canopies, leaving native plants in the undergrowth to die.