Black River Action Team - Invasive Species

Rock Snot, Mexican Bamboo and Eurasian Milfoil

No, these are not popular music groups, they are invasive plants that we all need to learn to recognize as a first step to managing their spread.

"Invasive" refers to plants that are visitors from another part of the world that are very enthusiastically reproducing in our area, causing problems in many ways. They do what plants do, they just do it extremely well and have few, if any, predators or natural controls.

http://www.des.state.nh.us/wmb/exoticspecies/didymo/index.html (Rock Snot a.k.a. Didymo)

http://www.cabi-bioscience.org/html/japanese_knotweed_alliance.htm (Mexican Bamboo a.k.a. Japanese knotweed)

http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/watermilfoil.shtml (Eurasian milfoil)

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/loosstrf/index.htm (Purple loosestrife)

Click here to go to the Projects page where you can find out how the BRAT is working to tackle some invasive species currently found in the Black River ecosystem.

Click here to visit the BRAT Knotweed Eradication Blog and check out what's being done in Springfield, VT about one particular invasive plant, Japanese knotweed.