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EXOTIC WATER PLANTS: The Army Corps of Engineers hopes a new grant strategy will help combat the invasive European frog-bit and its unwelcome water soldier relative that are spreading in the Great …
Katherine Palmer Gordon’s latest book, This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands, tells 10 inspiring stories about how Indigenous communities in B.C. are reconnecting to their lands and waters.
In the waters where it’s a native species — Europe, Asia, and Africa – the aquatic plant known as European frog-bit is no trouble at all. Though its name summons images of slime and bumps, frog-bit is a decorative display of coin-size leaves that in shallow water look like lily pads and serve as a source of food for insects, snails, rodents, waterfowl, and fish.
As of 8:45 a.m., the hardest hit areas are in Windsor County, where at least five inches of rainfall has already been accounted for.
Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Recourses and Renewables (DNRR) says a wildfire in Shelburne County is 60 per cent contained.