[APWG] NEWS: Invasive water palnts make inroads on Long Island

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/invasive-water-plants-make-inroads-on-long-island-1.1346057

Invasive water plants make inroads on Long Island
August 3, 2009 By JENNIFER SMITH  jennifer.smith at newsday.com

Not long after last month's declaration that the Peconic River was free of 
a pesky invasive plant called water primrose, state biologists made a 
disheartening discovery about 25 miles west.

A few dozen stems of hydrilla - a voracious Southern weed that has choked 
bodies of water across the Northeast - were growing in Lake Ronkonkoma.

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