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This list of invasive plant species in Wisconsin includes non-native plant species or strains "that become established in natural plant communities and wild areas, replacing native vegetation". [1] The Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin (IPAW) is a group working to address the problems presented by invasive species in Wisconsin. [1]
Seminary Woods is a historic woodland in St. Francis, Wisconsin, on the grounds of Saint Francis de Sales Seminary. It is one of the last surviving beech-maple mesic forests in Wisconsin. The forest was founded in 1855 when the seminary moved to St. Francis from Milwaukee and the land that was originally purchased by the Lake Drive Franciscan ...
In 2019, 25 miles of roadsides were surveyed for invasive species, [11] and in 2020, 62 miles of streams were surveyed for invasive species. [12] A county-wide electronic map of Japanese knotweed, Phragmites, teasel, and wild parsnip infested locations is updated annually. [13] Locations of other problem species have also been documented. [14]
Purple loosestrife, native to Asia, Europe, northwest Africa, and southeastern Australia, is an invasive species in Wisconsin. It has been observed in 445 lakes and rivers in Wisconsin, including the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage. [31] The Turtle-Flambeau Flowage & Trude Lake Property Owners Association monitors purple loosestrife around the flowage.
In 2023 it found 5,167 watercraft docked, moored, or available for in-out service on Geneva Lake, including a year-over-year increase of 19% in motorized boats and about twice as many personal ...
Kudzu is an invasive plant species in the United States, introduced from Asia with devastating environmental consequences, [1] earning it the nickname "the vine that ate the South". It has been spreading rapidly in the Southern United States , "easily outpacing the use of herbicide, spraying, and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these ...
The Wisconsin wake surfing proposal is modeled in part on a recent rule approved by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. It would require a wake boat to be used only in one lake per summer ...
This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...