Lake Raven in Huntsville State Park is the latest battleground in Texas’ long, costly war against giant salvinia, a phenomenally fast-growing, easily spread invasive aquatic plant with the ...

That autumn more than 15 years ago, the swarms of ducks that had poured into the shallow areas to feed on the native aquatic plants and seed didn't come; the blanket of salvinia, which holds no ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department share how boaters and paddlers can protect lakes from aquatic invasive species.

Lake Raven in Huntsville State Park is the latest battleground in Texas' long, costly war against giant salvinia, a phenomenally fast-growing, easily spread invasive aquatic plant with the ability ...

Giant salvinia made its home in Lake Bistineau back in 2006. Since then, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents like Evan Thames have worked to get the aquatic plant under control.

The merits of certain aquatic weeds, such as hydrilla, are often debated among fishermen, biologists and water managers. However, the weedy subject of this article should draw unanimous agreement ...

The nutrient-rich inland waters of Texas possess diverse native aquatic plant communities essential to healthy aquatic ecosystems. Many public waters promote excessive growth of native plants as ...

While recent freezing temperatures in Louisiana caused water pipelines to freeze, school closures and may have even resulted in fish kills, there is some good news, according to the state ...

The ADCNR announced Monday that it is closing the Washington County Public Fishing Lake to draw down the water and kill giant salvinia. The plant is a free-floating fern native to Brazil.

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Fisheries biologists of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission have been able to snuff out the giant salvinia species, an invasive aquatic plant species in Arkansas. This ...

May signals summer’s arrival for Texas’ 1.3 million or so freshwater anglers; never mind that the calendar says it’s still spring for almost two more months. Sometime this month in most of ...

South Africa is unleashing weevils imported from Louisiana in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of Salvinia minima, an alien species of aquatic plant native to South America that is choking ...