Invasive Species in Massachusetts

Learn More - Get Involved

Join us for a program on invasive species at a Mass Audubon Sanctuary near you.

Participate in a Related Program

Save Our Sanctuary (SOS), Habitat - 9/13/08 Exotic Plant Control - Honeysuckle, Autumn Olive, and Bittersweet, Wachusett Meadow - 9/27/08 Invaders in Your Backyard, Ipswich River - 9/27/08 Invasive Plant Control, Arcadia - 11/1/08

Educators! The following resources are available to help you teach your students about invasive species. For more information, contact Liz Duff.

• Lessoning Loosestrife - This curriculum was designed for elementary to high school level students to help teach about wetlands, invasive species, and about using biocontrol beetles as a tool for controlling a wetland invader, purple loosestrife.
• Salt Marsh Science Project - Since 1996, students in grades 5 - 12 on the North Shore have been working with Mass Audubon scientists to learn exciting and important information about salt marshes and Phragmites australis (common reed), an invasive plant that grows in salt marshes. View related video: Students learn about salt marsh invaders.