Invasive Species Control

EnviroScience has over 30 years of experience helping land managers treat invasive species that displace native vegetation on their properties. Whether the project involves restoration, mitigation monitoring, or maintenance of existing natural areas, our certified applicators and service crew can help you achieve your goals while meeting all regulatory requirements.

A crucial difference is that EnviroScience applicators are all biologists whose thorough knowledge of native and non-native plants gives them the ability to identify, locate, and effectively eliminate invasive plants while minimizing effects on non-target species. In addition, our applicators can select group-specific herbicides that will only affect broadleaf plants or grasses to provide additional safeguards against overspray.

EnviroScience has a team of certified applicators who are able to safely and effectively apply herbicides and pesticides throughout the U.S. Our team is certified and has the ability for commercial application certification in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia—with the ability to obtain certification for other states.

EnviroScience’s licensed and skilled staff have experience in a wide range of invasive control methods in terrestrial and aquatic systems from one acre to 500 acres in size. We have a full range of equipment to support our certified applicators, including backpack sprayers, ATV-mounted sprayers, and truck-mounted sprayers.

We evaluate sites and management goals to develop a management plan that is the most effective—both ecologically and financially. Our drones allow for important data collection and mapping of invasive vegetation in what would otherwise be inaccessible natural areas like swamps, fens, or bogs.

Chemical control is most commonly performed with backpack sprayers to minimize impacts on non-target species. Other methods include hand wicking, ATV broadcast spraying, cut stump, basal bark, and high-volume application. Mowing, cutting, and burning can also be used to control invasive species in certain habitats.

Our biologists have experience with many invasive species, including but not limited to:

• Common reed – Phragmites australis
• Narrowleaf cattail – Typha angustifolia
• Hybrid cattail – Typha x glauca
• Reed canary grass – Phalaris arundinacea
• Nepalese browntop – Microstegium vimineum
• Glossy buckthorn – Frangula alnus
• Common buckthorn – Rhamnus cathartica
• Autumn olive – Elaeagnus umbellata
• Russian olive – Elaeagnus angustifolia
• Tree of heaven – Ailanthus altissima
• Nonnative honeysuckles – Lonicera spp.
• Burning bush – Euonymus alatus
• Callery pear – Pyrus calleryana
• Multiflora rose – Rosa multiflora
• Japanese knotweed – Fallopia japonica
• Garlic mustard – Alliaria petiolata
• Purple loosestrife – Lythrum salicaria
• Chinese privet – Ligustrum sinense
• Barberry – Berberis thunbergii
• Oriental bittersweet – Celastrus orbiculatus

Questions? 

Contact our biologists for help with your project.

Few environmental firms in the country retain EnviroScience’s degree of scientific know-how, talent, and capability under one roof. The diverse backgrounds of our biologists, environmental engineers, scientists, and divers enable us to provide comprehensive in-house services and an integrated approach to solving environmental challenges—saving clients time, reducing costs, and ensuring high-quality results.

Our client guarantee is to provide “Excellence in Any Environment,” meaning no matter what we do, we will deliver on our Core Values of respect, client advocacy, quality work, accountability, teamwork, and safety. EnviroScience was created with the concept that we could solve complex problems by empowering great people. This concept still holds true today as our scientists explore the latest environmental legislation and regulations and incorporate the most up-to-date technology to gather and report data.

EnviroScience expertise includes but is not limited to: aquatic surveys (including macroinvertebrate surveys and biological assessments); ecological restoration; ecological services (including impact assessments, invasive species control, and water quality monitoring);  emergency response; engineering and compliance services; endangered mussel surveys; laboratory and analysis; stormwater management; threatened and endangered species; and wetlands and streams (including delineation and mitigation). Further, EnviroScience is one of the few biological firms in the country that is a general member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and offers full-service commercial diving services.