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On a sunny September morning on the Connecticut River, Gregory Bugbee nudged his skiff into Selden Cove in Hadlyme and it happened again. He got stuck.

Scientists found a previously undiscovered, genetically unique and exceptionally robust strain of the invasive weed hydrilla that so far has not been found anywhere else in the world.

On a sunny September morning on the Connecticut River, Gregory Bugbee nudged his skiff into Selden Cove in Hadlyme and it happened again. He got stuck. Two years ago, the cove was a magnet for anglers, a clear pond from which Selden Creek runs south through sunken meadows of wild rice and drowned oaks to join the river at the bottom of Selden Neck. Now you can’t sink a hook in the cove. It can ...

Scientists are working to control an invasive species that is posing a threat to the Connecticut River. Hydrilla, an invasive aquatic plant, was first detected...