Lee Zeldin



Sara Wyant
Plane makes an aerial application on a field in western Nebraska. (Photo by Gary Stone.)
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.)