CHEBOYGAN — It was a perfect day to harvest. The sun shone on research assistants tucked back in a wetland in Cheboygan's Gordon Turner Park on the shores of Lake Huron drove an amphibious combine ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aims: The objectives of this research were to determine the optimal pH for maximizing boron (B) accumulation in cattail (Typha latifolia) ...

These lovely days of May have spurred me to spend significant time wandering the trails that wind through my woods and wetlands. It's been delightful to spot wee warblers on the wing and watch the ...

Domestic cats are common in Leon County. Today’s couch ornament is a far cry from its immediate ancestors which were valued for their pest control skills. These feline predators prowled barns, ...

Claim to fame: Cattails are one of the best-known aquatic plants in Missouri and throughout much of North America. These tall, shallow-water plants with their familiar brown cylindrical seed-heads can ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees? In this ...

Laced throughout the Champlain Valley there are wetlands full of cattails. Beneath the tall grass-like leaves there are thousands of pounds of food and standing above the roots there is a potential ...

MAYS LANDING — The “pond” behind Oakcrest High School may look like a water retention basin. But for students in David Jungblut’s Research Science class it has been a real-life science experiment in ...