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Phragmites control at Kampoosa Bog, Massachusetts

Management: A large group of volunteers and staff worked to remove the Phragmites using a variety of management methods. Here staff of The Nature Conservancy describe how they cut Phragmites stems and laboriously and carefully injected minute amounts of blue-tinted herbicide into each grass stalk. Behind them, as-yet untreated Phragmites awaits their attentions.

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Updated January 2006
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