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Clethodim Treatment Tracking – Reed Canary Grass

Posted on May 29, 2025 by jmasonfpdwc

By: Julianne Mason, Forest Preserve District of Will County, Illinois For the past decade or so, I have had a slow-burn obsession with tracking the outcomes of spring treatments of clethodim herbicide, to reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea). It is … Continue reading →

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Herbicide Treatments to Reed Canary Grass – Clethodim vs. Glyphosate – Follow-Up Observations

Posted on September 21, 2023 by jmasonfpdwc

By: Julianne Mason, Restoration Program Coordinator, Forest Preserve District of Will County Five years ago, my coworker and I put in some test plots to compare the effectiveness of spraying reed canary grass with glyphosate, a non-selective herbicide, compared to … Continue reading →

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Pasture to prairie seeding experiment – initial thoughts

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

By Bill Kleiman If you are trying to turn a low diversity cool season grass pasture into high diversity prairie should you just seed the recently prescribed burnt sod?  Or first apply glyphosate herbicide or grass herbicide, then burn it, … Continue reading →

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Invasive Reed canary grass control

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

By Bill Kleiman As described in Plants of the Chicago Region, “Phalaris arundinacea, reed canary grass, is introduced from Eurasia. This grass is planted by farmers for pasture and erosion control. It is very common in marshes and other moist … Continue reading →

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Herbicide Treatments to Reed Canary Grass, Clethodim vs. Glyphosate

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Grassland Restoration Network blog

Subtitle:  We need to focus on winning the war and not just the battle By:  Julianne Mason, Restoration Program Coordinator, Forest Preserve District of Will County April 21, 2020 Like all invasive species, reed canary grass is a formidable opponent.  … Continue reading →

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