Battling Water Chestnut in an Environmentally Friendly Way

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European Water Chestnut
The annual weed pull calling volunteers to Bare Hill Pond in Harvard, Massachusetts; to yank invading water chestnut weeds from the pond’s depths wasn’t held this year. Why? Volunteer Rick Dickson said, “because we finally don’t need it.” The plant is injurious with its four-headed needle-sharp seeds typically making it to shore and cutting the

The Water Chestnut’s History on New York Waters

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European Water Chestnut
Trapa natans is native to Western Europe and Africa and northeast Asia, including eastern Russia, China, and southeast Asia to Indonesia. Trapa natans was first introduced to North America in the mid- to late-1870s, when it is known to have been introduced into the Cambridge botanical garden at Harvard University around 1877. A decade later

Aquatic Weed Harvesting Restores Pond

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Invasive Water Chestnut
Heard Pond became so heavily infested that the beauty and recreational value of it were lost.  Once flourishing with native water lilies Heard Pond had a reputation for great fishing and bird watching.  All gone, due to the lack of open water, nearly completely covered with water chestnut. Water chestnuts are native to parts of Eurasia

Are Invasive Species Really Bad

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Aquatic Invasive Plant Hydrilla
Are Invasive Species Really Bad. The Invasive Species War Boston Sunday Globe Sunday July 31st, 2011 The European water chestnut is considered an invasive species, one of the 1,500 or so plants and animals across the united States that have ended up settling in places where they don’t belong because of human activity.  It’s a