CADDO LAKE, TX. - Caddo Lake flooding caused a devastating amount of property damage, but there was at least one good thing that happened because of all that water: It flushed a large amount of giant ...

Jun. 26—AUSTIN — Giant salvinia is a destructive, invasive, free-floating aquatic fern that poses a major threat to Texas lakes. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) implements an integrated ...

CADDO PARISH, LA (KSLA) - The growing problem of Giant salvinia in Northwest Louisiana lakes is starting to see some improvement ... at least for now. "It's getting better and better; the cold killed ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department urged boaters this week to take invasive species seriously as two of the most ...

CADDO LAKE, TX (KLTV) - Visitors to Caddo Lake call it "mysterious and beautiful." But an invasive plant is now terrorizing the wildlife there. For years, Giant Salvinia has been growing out of ...

SAN ANTONIO — Dark clouds are gathering over the inland waters of Texas, and what they could deliver are not the beneficial rains that will sustain humans, build fisheries and help our wildlife.

The presence of a seemingly harmless invasive floating aquatic fern in Toledo Bend remains a conspicuous threat to its adopted ecosystem and neighboring waters. A recent survey indicated over 3,000 ...

AUSTIN – At North Toledo Bend Wildlife Management Area, giant salvinia covers about half of the WMA’s 500-acre wetland impoundment, blocking boat access for duck hunters and keeping migrating ...

An illegal plant species has been spotted in a large South Carolina lake, sparking concerns about a potential invasion. There have been sightings of the invasive giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta) ...

CADDO LAKE – It doesn’t take long on the water to recognize two things about Caddo Lake. This has got to be the signature site in East Texas. Nothing, not even the Big Thicket, can compare to the ...

WINNSBORO, S.C. — The S.C. Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) is asking the community to report sightings of an invasive plant from Brazil that’s banned in the U.S. Known as giant salvinia, ...

An aquatic weed called giant salvinia is causing major problems in south Louisiana as well as a few places in central and north Louisiana. This plant has an extremely rapid asexual reproduction, and ...