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

Pleasant Valley Cleanup Day, Pleasant Valley - 5/5/12

Help reduce invasives species at your favorite sanctuary.

Volunteer Opportunities - Invasive Species

Shrubland Restoration Volunteer - Allens Pond Trail Maintenance Volunteers (September through April) - Broadmoor Group Projects - Drumlin Farm Volunteer Opportunities - Felix Neck Energetic group and individual volunteers needed! - Habitat Work for Wildlife Statewide Volunteer Day - Ipswich River Property/Ecological Management Volunteers - Long Pasture Sanctuary Volunteers - Long Pasture

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.
• The Invasive Plant Ecology Curriculum focuses on several invaders you most likely have seen in your city. This resource focuses on some top invaders found on our roadsides and wetlands.