Winter Weekend Fun
This past weekend the sun was shining and the snow was smooth on the trails throughout Chautauqua County, providing excellent conditions to be outside on either machine powered or self powered modes of transportation. My husband, father and I all jumped on our snowmobiles and took a ride through the area, enjoying the snowy forests, snow covered ponds and whitened glassy fields providing us with a beautiful view everywhere we went. While we were out we also stopped at some of RTPI’s “Nature at Your Fingertips” cell phone tour stops, giving us a closer look at the...
Read MoreThe Art of Backyard Bird Photography
If you haven’t been down to RTPI yet to see our new exhibit, featuring photographer Mathew Tekulsky’s “The Art of Backyard Bird Photography,” then here is a little sneak peek. This week through March 8th, these beautiful photographs will be on display. We hope to see you here this weekend during the “Doors Open Jamestown” event as well as in the weeks to come enjoying this stellar exhibit!
Read MoreHWA Surveys Begin
With the recent news of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) reaching Chautauqua County, Tina and I began our surveys last Friday starting with one of the hemlock stands along the trails here at RTPI. We bundled up and spent a couple hours combing through the hemlock branches we could reach and are happy to report that we didn’t find any HWA within this particular cluster of trees. As the winter continues, we will continue to survey around our trails and will soon join our efforts with JCC students to survey the college’s woodlot as well. We are keeping our fingers crossed that we...
Read MoreHWA Here to Stay?
It’s official friends, HWA has been found in Chautauqua County. Over the holidays, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) was encountered on a number of Eastern Hemlock trees (Tsuga canadensis) near Fredonia. These trees exhibited the signs and symptoms of the invasive insect’s presence, having twigs covered in white woolly masses and dying needles, discolored due to loss of nutrients. Due to its small size and discrete nature, HWA can easily go undetected until it is too late, and death of the attacked hemlock is inevitable. However, it CAN be stopped and we CAN help the hemlocks...
Read MoreBird Portraits by Steve Cagan
“Bird Portraits” by Steve Cagan will only be on our walls for a couple more weeks. During your holiday vacation, stop down at RTPI to see these beautiful photographs that take an up-close and personal look at a number of different species. January 4th is the last day for the exhibit, so don’t miss it!
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