Home on the Grange will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Grange Hall in North Pole. The topic this week is “Invasive Species,” particularly the popular ornamental chokecherry tree. Both Prunus padus, ...

It’s a beast. It’s a bully. And its time is up, forest experts and community members say. The ornamental chokecherry tree, invasive in Alaska, has gotten so bad in some areas that the state used grant ...

Tricia Howe, a volunteer working at the Aug. 19, 2023,"weed smackdown" at Anchorage's Tikishla Park, pulls another felled European bird cherry tree to put on a pile near the park's softball field.

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State officials have barred the import, transport and sale of two fast-growing invasive species that were once popular garden ornamentals but have now wreaked havoc on natural vegetation. The Alaska ...