Monday, September 24, 2012

Indiana Department of Natural Resources bans 28 invasive aquatic plants


Come Friday, it will be illegal to give away, buy or sell any of more than two dozen common aquatic plants found in fish tanks, backyard water sculptures and koi ponds.

The invasive non-native aquatic plants -- 28 of them in all -- have increasingly choked the state's rivers, ponds, lakes and canals. As a result, the Indiana Natural Resources Commission voted in May to take action.
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