The pioneers arrived in the valley too late to do much planting the first year. They planted potatoes and other crops, but planting after the 24th of July they obviously did not get much production.

HURRICANE, Utah — Utah agriculture and wildfire officials are starting the spring with a warning about invasive species. Whether it’s Phragmites, crabgrass or tumbleweeds, these unwelcome ...

The native slough sedge was functionally extinct in Utah when Blake Wellard found a tiny patch of the tall, green wetland plant along a stretch of the Weber River in Coalville. The sedge had hung ...

PROVO, Utah (ABC4) — For years, there’s been an ongoing battle on Utah Lake, with crews spraying, mowing and hacking away phragmites, an invasive reed that has grown thick on the lake’s ...

These native plants sustained Indigenous communities for generations. Now Utah students are bringing them back. Story by Clarissa Casper • 16m. Nibley • Inside Logan Canyon, ...

Volunteers plant a row of native plants at Utah Lake on Monday, April 22, 2024. A freshly planted plug of Nebraska sedge pokes up from the soil around Utah Lake on Monday, April 22, 2024.

Many homeowners who already have the plant don’t know that it is invasive, or that it can cause severe reactions, said Tony Frates, conservation co-chair of the Utah Native Plants Society.

Utah's Department of Agriculture and Food ... ensure the plants are doing well and bees are, too. ... putting approximately 90,000 resource plants in the ground. Native seed mixes will also be ...