The invasive species water soldier, is native to asia and is seen here, over crowding Seymour Lake in Napanee. (Photo: Submitted / Lower Trent Conservation)
While the Quinte Region is home to plenty of soldiers, there’s one type that local environmental groups are trying to get rid of.
A public consultation process is continuing ahead of Ministry of Natural Resources plans, to apply pesticides in some local waterways, to try and eliminate the invasive water soldier plant, which originally comes from asia.
Lower Trent Conservation’s Marilyn Bucholtz says the plant, which started showing up in the area in fall 2008, interferes with native plants already there.
A public information session was held in Campbellford last week and more input and opinion continues to come in through the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Bucholtz says most of that opinion so far agrees that the plant needs to go.
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MNR officials will take feedback until September 25, before working applying herbicides to the plant.
You can click her to learn more about the water soldier and the problems it’s causing locally.
