CHEBOYGAN — It was a perfect day to harvest. The sun shone on research assistants tucked back in a wetland in Cheboygan's Gordon Turner Park on the shores of Lake Huron drove an amphibious combine ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Walk along most any lake or wetland in southern Minnesota and chances are you’ll see lots of cattails. But look closer, and you may not like what’s happening. Where native cattails ...

If you live anywhere in the United States near marshlands or ponds, the cattail is a summertime staple. Known by science as the Broadleaf Cattail (Typha latifolia), these species of edible plant have ...

As the leaves come down, we begin to notice plants such as cattails that will persist into winter and perhaps until spring. Native cattails have long provided food, shelter, medicine, and more to ...

The plant: Where I grew up in Connecticut, cattails edged ponds where I’d watch salamanders gliding just under the water’s surface. Each fall, along with dried corn stalks and burnt-orange pumpkins, ...

As the leaves come down, we begin to notice plants such as cattails that will persist into winter and perhaps until spring. Native cattails have long provided food, shelter, medicine, and more to ...