Cattails (Typha latifolia) are the iconic freshwater wetland plant. Where there is fresh water and some sun, there will be cattails.

This is possible in small ponds but not at Voyageurs ... known as “swamp devils,” which chop up floating cattail mats, to a small vehicle that scrapes off the plants above the ice in winter. These ...

It was pure Michigan on a recent Sunday on Belle Isle — the sound of metallic blades swooshing and crunching and cutting through the ice, while dormant pond grasses and cattails danced in the ...