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Pickleweed is an invasive or introduced plant in Hawaii. It has succulent, brilliant green leaves and is common in salt marshes and tidal shorelines. It grows slowly in soils with high salt concentrations and areas with seawater overwash where it suffers little competition from other plants. The species manages salts by sequestering them in cell vacuoles and eventually shedding the leaves.
Batis maritima (Pickleweed)
Native to India, introduced to Hawaii Island in 1883 (via Jamaica, where it was also introduced), then introduced to Maui, Molokai, and Oahu; none were introduced on the island of Kauai. Mongoose were imported by the sugar industry to control rats in cane fields. This infamous mistake was made without much knowledge about mongoose. Mongoose, which are active during the day, did not control the rats because the rats are primarily active at night.
Herpestes javanicus (Small Asian Mongoose)
Side view of truck salting the road
Road salt truck
Climbers in Joshua Tree National Park.
Climbers
Illustration of a concrete weir
Weir
Great blue heron in the Everglades at Shark Valley Visitor Center.
Great blue heron
Great blue heron in the Everglades at Shark Valley Visitor Center.
Great blue heron in the Everglades
View of Lower Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona.
Antelope Canyon
View of the Sun's Eye in Monument Valley.
The Sun's Eye, Monument Valley
Salt evaporation ponds on the shoreline of Chilika Lake, Orissa, India.
Saltworks
Manatee in Port of the Islands, Florida.
Manatee
Manatee in Port of the Islands, Florida.
Manatee
Manatee in Port of the Islands, Florida.
Manatee
Manatee in Port of the Islands, Florida.
Manatee
Perennial native plants like the bee balm (Monarda didyma) are recommended for rain gardens, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The red color attracts hummingbirds and pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies.
Bee balm (Monarda didyma)
Perennial native plants like coneflowers (Echinecea) are recommended for rain gardens, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They attract birds and pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies.
Coneflowers (Echinecea) and bee
Flooded corn in field, in Maryland.
Flooded corn
Flooded cropland during heavy rains, in Maryland
Flooded cropland
By elevating the rain barrel in this vegetable garden, the property owner is more likely to get a steady water flow.
Elevated rain barrel
Chesapeake Watershed Forester and landowner agree on best management practice strategies, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Forester and landowner agree on healthly forest…
Landowner and Chesapeake Watershed Forester discuss how to handle the invasive poison ivy climbing the trees, on an Eastern Shore of Maryland farm.
Forester and landowner consult
Chesapeake Watershed Forester and landowner consult in the forest, in Maryland.
Forester and landowner consult during a survey of…
Chesapeake Watershed Forester and landowner amid a healthy mixed forest, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Forester and landowner survey the forest
Invasive multiflora with Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) among planted Red Cedars (Juniperus virginiana), in Maryland.
Invasive multiflora with Russian olive (Elaeagnus…
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