Invasive Phragmites Choke Utah Wetlands
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  Conservationists, bird watchers and hunters are concerned about an insidious plant that is spreading wildly through Utah's wetlands: phragmites.  Phragmites (pronounced frag-mighties) are a form of reed that can grow 10 feet tall in dense brakes.
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A federal judge on Friday imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps sending water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to users around the state, saying the pumps were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish.
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By Ray Sasser, The Dallas Morning News  May 31----E-mail   Smallmouth bass have taken a hit from golden alga, the insidious blooming plant that's caused problems in West Texas fish hatcheries and at Lake Whitney, the heavyweight champ of the state's smallmouth lakes.
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By LEE BERGQUIST  When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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At left, Sterling Brinkerhoff, 5, helps Jim Karpowitz with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stock Willow Pond in Murray with trout on Thursday. Right, Bumble, the official mascot of the Salt Lake Bees, supervises as catchable-size fish are dumped into Willow Pond.
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By Glen Warchol, The Salt Lake Tribune  Jan. 30--The growing demand for open space in Salt Lake's suburbs is  driving a bill through the Legislature that would give immunity from lawsuits  to cities and the owners of canals and ditches if a jogger or bicyclist is  injured.
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The Timaru Rowing Club's weed problems in Saltwater Creek will not be easily solved.   Environment Canterbury (Ecan) has no statutory obligation to clear the weed unless it becomes a flood issue.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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Australian conservationists are combating an invasion of poisonous cane toads through a modern-day Noah's Ark program, taking pairs of endangered animals to toad-free islands to breed safely.
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By TONY DAVIS, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  The Northwest Side's cacti and desert trees stand so dense that sometimes it's impossible to squeeze through them.
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Volunteers take pickaxes and crowbars to the invasive weed, which is threatening the ecology of Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
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By Mike Gorrell, The Salt Lake Tribune  Jan. 30--Utah American Energy Inc. has agreed to delay for 45 days  threatened legal action against the state, which the mining company claims has  been too slow in approving its application for a controversial coal mine in  the Book Cliffs.
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.
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By PETER B. LORD  An expert on invasive species in marine waters will give the first lecture this year in the 2006-2007 Mark D. Gould Memorial Lecture Series sponsored by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey.
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By Nicole Radzievich, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 17--The trees, their charming name aside, choke the banks of the historic towpath, blocking gorgeous views of the Lehigh River on one side and drying up parts of the canal on the other.
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By Linda Thomson Deseret Morning News  The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a blow to environmentalist groups by refusing to hear an appeal that a Utah constitutional amendment infringed upon First Amendment free-speech rights.
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About 1,500 dead birds that have washed up on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake may have been killed by avian cholera, an expert said. Dead grebes, ducks and gulls were being sent to the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., for examination.