National Park Service employees swing axes down on vegetation. My name is Joey Negrian. I'm a vegetation technician intern for Point Race National Seashore. And we're out here working on Jabata. So Jabata Grass is what we call a panthisk grass. It's kind of the colloquial or common name. We have actually two species of panthisk grass. The scientific name for what we're treating today is Cordederia Jabata. And then there's also Cordederia Salano. And those are two different species of the same genus that come from South America. So a chunk, you look at this, and you're like, that's dead, right? We've seen regrowth in pieces like this because this got moisture over the winter. And there's enough. So tissue is still in this plant that with moisture and light, it will totally become a new plant. A piece of the plant, even this size, is problematic. So after we take down a plant, we have to then kind of piece through the ground and make sure we've left literally nothing. Exposed to the bare soil. It's highly invasive, because it can reproduce on its own. It doesn't need anything to like pollinate, prop pollinate. And if we were to let this kind of let them continue to grow, then they might take over the whole plateau and then just beat Jabata grass down here. Featuring Joey Negri and Corbin Genese Lake. Special thanks to Ellen Hammond, produced by Gregory Peer Boy. National Park Service.