Apr. 29—Efforts are continuing to battle the spread of the invasive water chestnut plant in the Oswegatchie River, Black Lake and most recently, the St. Lawrence River. Brad Baldwin, a professor of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLONIE — Kayakers will now be able to launch their boats on the Mohawk River from the town’s Mohawk River Park. The town said late last month it had successfully removed the water chestnuts that had ...

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 ...

Employees from Western New York Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management have found water chestnuts in the Chautauqua Lake Outlet. The group was surveying areas where water chestnut had ...

Though native to Eurasia and long valued in Asian cuisines, the water chestnut is an invasive species in North America. The Otsego County Conservation Association in New York has been hard at work ...

Officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said it's threatening the health of the Tohickon Creek Watershed which includes Lake Towhee and Lake Nockamixon About 30 ...