Results of the Manitoulin Phragmites Project 2020
SHARE ON: Manitoulin Phragmites Project team members Joel Trudeau and Nathan Madahbee hand-cutting Phragmites out of natural vegetation in the shoreline marsh at the head of South Bay. Photo provided The Manitoulin Phragmites Project had a successful year despite having to deal with COVID-19 and the challenges it presented. Project coordinator Judith Jones says phragmites are an invasive, tough, long-growing European grass that chokes out natural vegetation and has spread across Manitoulin Island. She says it was a bit tough this year because they lacked government funding, so the work did n...