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Invasive plants take root after Irene flooding

By Lisa Rathke

 |  Associated Press  

  April 30, 2012

BETHEL, Vt. - Last year’s hurricanes and flooding not only engulfed homes and carried away roads and bridges in hard-hit areas of the country, it dispersed aggressive invasive species as well. In Vermont, the flood waters from Tropical Storm Irene and work afterward to dredge rivers and remove debris spread fragments of Japanese knotweed, a plant that threatens to take over flood plains wiped clean by the August storm.

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