RHINELANDER, Wis. (AP) — Maybe they should be called the weed busters.

Officials say the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest is now a major partner in four invasive species cooperatives to better control weeds on both private and government lands.
One of the goals is to ensure hunting and hiking areas are not overgrown with buckthorn so thick that it makes it hard to walk through them.

The new invasive species cooperatives in northern Wisconsin are called Northwoods, Upper Chippewa, Wild Rivers and Vilas/Oneida. They are focusing weed-pulling efforts in Ashland, Bayfield, Douglas, Iron, Sawyer, Price, Rusk, Taylor, Florence, Vilas and Oneida counties in Wisconsin and Dickenson County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

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