A contractor hired by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission uses a helicopter to apply herbicide to phragmites, an invasive, noxious weed, at Niobrara Confluence Wildlife Management Area on the Missouri River near the village of Niobrara. Also known as common reed, phragmites is choking out native vegetation, reducing the amount of wildlife habitat available on the Missouri, Platte and other rivers, reservoirs and wetlands throughout the state. It is also an Aquatic Invasive Species. (Photo by Eric Fowler, for NEBRASKAland Magazine, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.)

Waterfowl hunters: Do your part to prevent spread of invasive plants

Bobcat founders enter inventors’ hall of fame

(Journal photo by Kylene Scott.)

NTOP field day showcases benefits of soil health practices 

Over 33 species of bats call Texas home. (Photo courtesy of Murlin Tuttle, Bat Conservation International)

Bring on the bats

(Photo courtesy of Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.)

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza cases confirmed in Pocahontas and Guthrie counties

Colorado Department of Agriculture HPAI graphic

New Backyard Avian Influenza Case Confirmed in Colorado

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is extremely contagious in poultry. (Journal photo by Lacey Vilhauer.)

Highly pathogenic avian influenza confirmed in Oklahoma flock

Wheat. (Photo by Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife.)

Threshing stones linked to Mennonites in Kansas