by Kyle J Webster | Mar 14, 2011 | Publications, Apps, and Websites
This new website, www.my-plant.0rg, was created by Richard Olmstead and funded by the National Science Foundation to foster communication among botanists working on specific groups of plants. Users can create their own ‘clade’, like New York mints for...
by Kyle J Webster | Mar 11, 2011 | Field Trips
The Butternut Valley Alliance in Otsego County has scheduled their second annual wildflower walk for Sunday June 5th, at 1:30 PM. There are pictures of last year’s walk on the Butternut Valley Alliance website. View the pdf of the Flora Walk at the...
by Kyle J Webster | Mar 10, 2011 | What's Blooming
NYFA board member Aissa Feldmann saw skunk cabbage blooming in a swamp at Stony Kill Farm near Beacon in Dutchess County on March 9th while performing surveys for New England cottontail. The snow was patchy (see photo) so she didn’t see the process of snow...
by Kyle J Webster | Mar 9, 2011 | Classes and Workshops, Field Trips, Happenings
Learn about the ecology of the Long Island Central Pine Barrens and take part in other educational fun shops, field trips and a kids Discovery Center. Fun for the whole family. More information is available at their website. CLICK HERE to access it. Rain date June...
by Kyle J Webster | Mar 8, 2011 | Natural History, Plant Identification, Publications, Apps, and Websites
Margaret Conover, a botanist from SUNY Stony Brook, has written an interesting overview of how botany has been taught in American high schools from 1800 to the present. She states that just over 100 years ago nearly all high-school students studied botany for a full...
