HWA Training Rescheduled
Due to the forecasted lake effect snow storm to impact our area later this afternoon and evening, we have decided to reschedule tonight’s HWA Citizen Science training for next Thursday, December 15th at 6pm. We hope the weather will cooperate next week and will see you there!
Read MoreScary Forest Pests
Happy Halloween everyone! I don’t know if anyone will be dressed up like an Emerald Ash Borer for Halloween, like our Project Wild America Youth Ambassadors were for their invasives community outreach event over the summer, but we should be on the lookout for these and other scary pests on this Hallow’s eve. While tonight will be fairly warm, the cooler weather is on its way and the need for firewood will increase. As you cut or buy wood to heat your home for the winter or get that last camping trip in before the snow flies, you should be aware of where your wood is coming from...
Read MoreHemlock Woolly Adelgid Documentary and Discussion
New York Invasive Species Awareness Week – NYISAW Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Documentary and Discussion Thursday July 14th, 2016 – 7pm at Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown Join WNY PRISM and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute for a special screening of Chris Foito’s award-winning documentary, “The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid: A Film about the Loss of an Ecosystem.” This film showcases the significance of the Eastern Hemlock tree on the landscape and the devastating impacts hemlock woolly adelgid, a tiny invasive insect, has had on these “Redwoods of the East.” A Q&A session with...
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Will we see you this Thursday at RTPI? New York Invasive Species Awareness Week continues!
Read MoreTeaching the Teachers
Throughout the past few years of working for RTPI, I’ve heard the phrase “teaching the teachers” a number of times. From my understanding, at one time this meant equipping school teachers with the proper materials and knowledge to take their classes out into nature and teach their students place-based education. RTPI education staff traveled extensively to carry out teacher workshops and engage students in learning about the natural world. As the years have gone on, the approach to carrying out that phrase has shifted, but the focus has remained: passing our knowledge and...
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