Question: What can you tell me about cattails? Are they good or bad? I have some in my pond. Answer: In this case, cattails can be both “good” or “bad” – depending on your point of view. Some people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You ...

Question: I have a question about vegetation in ponds. I live in a golfing community that has several ponds in which I fish daily for bass. The largest of these ponds has cattails growing at an ...

Claim to fame: Cattails are one of the best-known aquatic plants in Missouri and throughout much of North America. These tall, shallow-water plants with their familiar brown cylindrical seed-heads can ...

In March I wrote about exploring three beaver ponds at my grandparent’s old farm property in New Hampshire. With the late winter ground and water still frozen it was easy for me to explore the edges ...

Question: I have a question about vegetation in ponds. I live in a golfing community that has several ponds in which I fish daily for bass. The largest of these ponds has cattails growing at an ...