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The beautiful invader

Article Abstract:

Discussed here is the greatest threat to the Connecticut tidelands, after development, a fertile plant called phragmites. According to the Connecticut Department of Environment Protection, the state has, on average, lost less than half an acre of tidal marsh a year to development over the past 20 years, but could lose more than 200 acres of its area to phragmites every year. Appropriate steps are being taken to control the phragmites.

United States, Control, Grasses, Common reed

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The last big place

Article Abstract:

The Maine woods are increasingly in danger of being developed in the same way that much of the Northeast's privately owned forests have been. Conservationists are getting involved, and the struggle to preserve the wilderness of Maine and its old-growth forests may attract national attention.

Maine, Forests and forestry, Forests, Natural resources, Rural land use

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