Roseau cane plays a vital role in Louisiana’s coastal ecosystem, helping to anchor soil and reduce erosion along the ...

Rose Fisher Greer, one of the only basket weavers left in the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, holds a piece of river cane in Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest Rose Fisher Greer, one of the only ...

It had been more than 100 years since a Catawba Indian had woven a basket from river cane. Teresa Dunlap, a cultural class specialist at the Catawba Reservation in Rock Hill, S.C, proudly held up a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Rose Fisher is looking for river cane. “The cane has a sound to it. It makes that perfect sound that it’s ready to use,” said Fisher. Fisher is an elder with the Jena Choctaw ...

Just after the Revolutionary War, the first white settlers came into a French Broad River Valley filled with vast seas of river cane. River cane is the only native bamboo in this area. It has slender ...

Officials in Arizona are trying to get rid of river cane, an invasive plant that sucks up a lot of water. But Native tribes have used this bamboo-like plant for centuries. KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio ...

The Conservancy plans to own and manage the property for the long term, to preserve the natural and cultural resources of the ...

The AgCenter’s restoration trials aim to identify effective planting techniques and management practices to reestablish ...

A native planting option It’s not just tribes contributing to the revival of river cane. An hour or so northwest of the Chitimacha reservation, Bruno Sagrera is propagating the plant’s rhizomes on his ...