On Saturday, volunteers turned LaGrange Park Woods into a natural "rage room,” snapping, sawing and burning invasive buckthorn threatening the area.

I just moved into a new home and need to get rid of buckthorn trees that seem to have gotten a foothold in my new garden. What is a good strategy to deal with this pesky weed? Common buckthorn grows ...

Roses and buckthorn have thorns, but one is a sign of love while the other is an invasive species in southeast Wisconsin.

A Lake Zurich-based volunteer group launched a buckthorn bounty program to give local homeowners incentives to eliminate the invasive buckthorn tree. Despite the efforts of municipalities and ...

Collectively, Chicago region forest preserves, including those in Lake and Cook counties, spend more than $1 million annually to eradicate buckthorn and honeysuckle, two of the area’s most invasive ...

Greg Cleary’s saw rose and fell on the side of the road. When he finished hacking down a cluster of buckthorn trees, he marked a blue circle on the stumps’ growth rings with what looked like a bingo ...

ALBERT LEA, Minn. -- Nancy Hughes remembers when she buckthorn. The brushy shrub has invaded near the creek that runs through the 200-acre Vandegrift family farm. It's in the ravines and near the ...

Fall is the best season to remove buckthorn. This noxious weed tree stays green in fall and is easy to identify after native trees turn beautiful fall colors. Many residents have done their part in ...