HWA Survey Reminder
Tomorrow come join us as we survey Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy’s Cassadaga Creek Preserve beginning at 9am! We will be meeting at the site (directions can be found by visiting CWC’s website) and will work our way through the preserve, in search of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA). No previous knowledge of HWA is required as on-site training will be offered. So bundle yourself up and volunteer a couple hours of your time towards this important work!
Read MoreSurvey Work Continues
Call us crazy, but we have done it again: bundled ourselves up and trudged around in knee deep snow to survey for the deadly Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. This time, our JCC/CWC/RTPI survey team traveled down to Warren County to visit the Hatch Run Conservation Demonstration Area for the second year in a row. This site is loaded with Eastern Hemlock trees that make up a beautiful and valuable riparian zone between the streams and upland forests. We are happy to report that we didn’t find the pest we were after (which is a good thing!) and being in that particular site made us really think....
Read MoreAnother HWA Survey
Don’t forget our Hemlock Woolly Adelgid surveys, with another coming up tomorrow Friday, February 27. This is not what you want to see covering the trees of Chautauqua County, killing thousands and devastating parts of the landscape. Please join us and help find the bug before it’s too late! See more information here.
Read MoreForest Pest Project Continues
As National Invasive Species Awareness Week (NISAW) continues, we are continuing to work on our Collaborative Forest Pest Outreach Project in partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County. Today we erected Help Me! signs on Ash trees in a park in Kennedy, New York, an active fishing area and trail-head for the snowmobile trails. Through this project we hope to reach those that visit the park, and other areas where these signs are posted, educating about forest pests such as Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and Emerald Ash Borer in a fun and empowering way.
Read MoreKick Off For NISAW
Happy National Invasive Species Awareness Week (NISAW)! As events are taking place around the country, spreading the word about invasive species, we teamed up with our friend Andrea Locke WNY PRISM Coordinator to kick things off with a training session on Asian Long-horned Beetle (ALB), Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA). We had 16 people in attendance of the training session and had a brave few stay for the outdoor survey portion of the training, bearing the cold temperatures while searching for HWA here at RTPI. We are happy to report that we didn’t find any in...
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