The Australian melaleuca tree was imported into South Florida in the early part of the century to dry out "worthless swampland" and transform it into lumber-producing forests. At the time, the tree ...
Outfitted for battle, Camille Sewell plodded across a tiny island teeming with the enemy one recent Everglades morning in the marshy interior of the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildife ...
Scientists soon will invite a second foreign bug to South Florida to feast on melaleuca, hoping to further slow the noxious weed conquest of the Everglades and other natural areas. The newcomer, ...