Government officials say invasive plants are taking over
public lands at the rate of thousands of acres a day. These invasives
are plants that are not native to the area. Often, plants such as
garlic mustard and kudzu were brought to a region for ornamental use,
before spreading to other areas where they weren’t wanted. The
problem attracted hundreds of people to an invasive plants conference
in Eau Claire, Wisconsin recently to discuss the current state of
control.
In the second of a three-part series, the Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Mary Jo Wagner reports that so far, efforts to stop the spread of these
plants have been spotty: