SPRING LAKE TOWNSHIP --- Buckthorn, first brought to Michigan from Europe in the mid-1800s as a popular hedging material, has proved an invasive species. Buckthorn has been seen in Spring Lake ...

For years, we have removed every buckthorn shrub that crept onto our property, but recently this invasive species has gotten out of hand. This fall, we found several that were taller than us and ...

ASHWAUBENON — First, buckthorn looks like a pea shoot. Then, it turns into a tree that soaks up the sun in its canopies, leaving native plants in the undergrowth to die. The village's Plan Commission ...

If the invasive buckthorn that is strangling the life out of Minnesota’s forest floor has a weakness, it is right now, in the shortening daylight of the late fall. With a little help and planning, ...