Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
A TANGLED mass of knotweed grows along Ayer Street, near the Luxmore Street intersection, on Tuesday. The invasive species extends in a patch well off the roadway.
BESSEMER - The Gogebic Conservation District is gathering landowner information on an effort to eradicate knotweed, an invasive plant species that can penetrate house walls and floors.
Jim Finley, district administrator, said the GCD was awarded a grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to fight knotweed in the western Upper Peninsula.
In seeking information for the effort, Finley has mailed letters to those who may have knotweed infestations.
The GSD and U.S. Forest Service spent last summer mapping knotweed infestations in the old mining zone stretching from Ironwood to Wakef...
