Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 29—Efforts are continuing to battle the spread of the invasive water chestnut plant in the Oswegatchie River, Black Lake and ...

WORCESTER — A group of volunteers paddled in canoes and kayaks in Coes Reservoir Saturday morning, pulling invasive water chestnuts from the water. Volunteers removed water chestnuts from Coes ...

LEE — Kneeling on a paddleboard and elbow-deep in Laurel Lake, Kerry Stein spent his Saturday afternoon pulling as many invasive water chestnut plants from the water as he could. After an hour on the ...

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 ...

Wildlife officials and conservationists partnered up to pull a few hundred water chestnut plants from a lake in upstate New York. While this initiative is undoubtedly beneficial to the local ecosystem ...

When pulling the plants, it is extremely important to dry and dispose of any plants away from water. Late in the season, August, is the time to look for the woody seed pods called caltrops, that at ...

CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — The Farm River in Connecticut is closer to health after Friends of the Farm River & Estuary received an invasive control grant to remove water chestnuts. The invasive water ...

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 ...