ABSTRACT
Cutting emergent vegetation represents an artificial technique not widely used, despite its effectiveness in inhibiting revegetation and enhancing emergent vegetation-water interspersion. Cutting procedures, implements, and size and configuration of cut areas differed among study areas and are described below for each area. Regeneration of cattail and bulrush was investigated at M. Milligan Creek and Kapakoskasewakak Lake, respectively. R. Murkin Henry and Ward and Sale and Wetzel discussed the possible mechanism by which cutting and subsequent flooding of cattail stubble results in its decreased regeneration. Post-growing season cutting of cattail and bulrush with subsequent flooding during the growing season appears to be an effective control method for these and possibly other emergent plant species. In several marshes in western Canada, the authors evaluated regeneration of common cattail, tule bulrush, and softstem bulrush following post-growing season cutting and subsequent spring-summer flooding as a method of control.
