Invasive Decorative Plants Targeted

By JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press Writer, General Science / Biology

A couple walks past last year's growth of Phragmites, also known as "Giant Reed," in this Sunday, May 13, 2007 file photo, at Maumee Bay State Park in Oregon, Ohio. Invasive bamboo-like plants that grow taller than adults have choked out native plants in a marsh that once teemed with life along Lake Erie. (AP Photo/J.D. Pooley)

(AP) -- Bamboo-like plants that grow taller than adults have choked out native plants in a marsh that once teemed with life at Maumee Bay State Park along Lake Erie.

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