Waterway Stewards

2008-15-08 Southwest Creek & Noxious Alligator Weed

Please come and help us to get rid of this horrible weed.John Althouse and Suzanne Ulbrich of the Jacksonville Daily News will have pictures and astory about this experiment shortly. Please look for it.

We are trying to eradicate this noxious weed in this lovely creek.

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Every summer this noxious weed grows so fast it takes over the entire waterway in places. This makes fishingimpossible. The rapid growth begins immediately in the early spring. Freezing weather kills it but only the growthabove the water level. This dense growth becomes a foot or more high [...]