ALBERT LEA, Minn. -- Nancy Hughes remembers when she buckthorn. The brushy shrub has invaded near the creek that runs through the 200-acre Vandegrift family farm. It's in the ravines and near the ...

A Lake Zurich-based volunteer group launched a buckthorn bounty program to give local homeowners incentives to eliminate the invasive buckthorn tree. Despite the efforts of municipalities and ...

People fight buckthorn with everything. They cut them with chain saws, yank out the seedlings, douse stumps with Roundup, imprison them under coffee cans and shovel out the roots. They sic goats on ...

Buckthorn is very invasive and is a noxious weed in Minnesota that takes work to eradicate. Of note, not all buckthorn plants have berries.

For years, we have removed every buckthorn shrub that crept onto our property, but recently this invasive species has gotten out of hand. This fall, we found several that were taller than us and ...

According to new research from the University of Minnesota, buckthorn managers have long overestimated the plant, and in doing so, have given the invasive tree a significant advantage in spreading ...

Abe Stone can expertly identify mushrooms. The longtime forager’s affinity for fungi has guided him down a research path that holds promise for suppressing one of the most recent and obstinate ...