Huge Thank You!
During NY Invasive Species Awareness Week RTPI hosted a number of events raising awareness about local invasive species and conducted several survey efforts with their Project Wild America Youth Ambassadors. One of the events, Water Chestnut Chasers, resulted in the PWA crew and RTPI staff kayaking the outlet of Chautauqua Lake in search of this pesky plant. Survey efforts came up negative (whew!), but a very positive experience exploring the wild shorelines of the Chadakoin River was had. As a result of this successful trip, we want to extend a BIG thank you to Conewango Kayak Canoe...
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!
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New York Invasive Species Awareness Week – NYISAW Emerald Ash Borer Monitoring Tuesday July 12th, 2016 – All day around the City of Jamestown Since the arrival of Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) to the United States, many agencies and organizations have been working to detect the presence and combat the infestations of this invasive insect. Within New York State, one method deployed by the Department of Environmental Conservation is the erection of purple prism traps in ash trees. These traps, easily recognized by their purple color and attractive due to their stressed ash tree lure, have been used...
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It is not officially summer until you stop and smell the daisies so please be sure to make the time to do so this week! While Leucanthemum vulgare is a nonnative resident it certainly has its charms if we only think about the aesthetic. It is hard living among so many often beautiful but sometimes invasive species, and while we should work to rid ourselves of the most virulent to human agriculture or other conservation-priority native species and not add to the problem, we can still appreciate something in our environment without feeling too guilty…I hope! Conservation is not easy....
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