Winter Trails Fun
This weekend is going to be a B-E-A-Utiful one for all that enjoy getting outdoors during this time of year in Chautauqua County! With the latest storms passing through from the Midwest this week, there is ample snow for everyone to play in. While you are out this weekend, enjoying the deep snow throughout the county, take a moment to check out these little blue Snowy Owl signs scattered across the snowmobile trails. Many of these signs are placed at trail junctions, road crossings and trail heads, and each tell a stellar story about the natural history or a historical happening at each...
Read MoreThanks Doors Open!
Thank you to everyone who visited us at RTPI today during Doors Open Jamestown! If you couldn’t make it today…how about tomorrow?!
Read MoreSnowmobiling in Chautauqua County
While some stayed inside and enjoyed the beautiful, bitter cold landscape from the windowsill, many others were out in the winter wonderland that engulfed Chautauqua County this past weekend. Most of the county club’s snowmobile trails were open for traffic to traverse through the fields and forests, providing a unique opportunity to enjoy the incredible natural resources the county has to offer. Riding underneath the bows of a spruce forest in the state lands to riding across a sturdily built bridge passing over a stream provides a perspective not likely seen otherwise during this...
Read MoreCurrent Snow Depth
Many snowmobile trails are open and folks are out on their sleds, hiking and skiing across the wintry landscape in Chautauqua County. Here’s our current regional snow depth – this is more like it! Have you used our educational, conservation-minded and natural history based winter trails cell phone tour? http://rtpi.org/conservation/winter-trails-cell-phone-tour/
Read MoreYear-end Gift to Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Dear Friends of RTPI, Just before Christmas when snow and cold started to slow down our natural history studies at home, we shifted gears and started our seasonal work in the tropics. Have you ever wondered where our summer birds spend the holidays? Well, here are a few highlights of what we are finding at the RTPI-supported Nicoya Peninsula Avian Research Station (NPARS) in northwestern Costa Rica.
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