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Winter Ecology Walks and Botany Lab at Hawthorne Valley Farm, Columbia County
“Winter Explorations”–back by popular demand! A series of winter ecology walks to various locations throughout Columbia County. The walks will be on Saturdays, 12:30-2:30pm (Nov. 6, Dec. 11, Jan. 15, Feb. 12, and March 12), locations to be announced. The outings are...
Adirondack Follensby Pond Aerial Video
Here is a aerial trip around Follensby Pond, the new purchase of The Nature Conservancy and recent site of a bioblitz. For video CLICK HERE. Length 2:34.
Adirondack Spring Pond Bog Aerial Video
If you have ever been to Spring Pond Bog, a patterned peatland, in the Adirondacks you will appreciate this video. If you haven't you will want to go there! For video CLICK HERE. Length is 4:10.
The Northeast Natural History Conference Is Back!
Announcing the Northeast Natural History Conference 2011 and the Founding Meeting of the Association of Northeastern Biologists Join us for the 11th Northeast Natural History Conference (NENHC) and the historic first meeting of the Association of Northeastern...
Environmental Education Expo in New York City October 6.
Talk on Native Plants at State Museum October 4th.
Fort Orange Garden Club Albany, New York Is Pleased to Present Dr. Douglas W. Tallamy Author of: Bringing Nature Home How you can sustain wildlife with native plants. Monday, October 4, 2010 - 7 PM New York State Museum, Hudson Auditorium 225 Madison Avenue,...
In Search of Long Island Rare Plants 4 – Sandplain Gerardia
From Steve Young, NY Natural Heritage. In August and early September I searched grassland habitat on Long Island for Sandplain Gerardia, Agalinis acuta. There are only a few sites left on Long Island for this federally endangered plant but some new sites have been...
Black Walnut in Danger of Being Destroyed in Eastern Forests
Thousand Cankers Disease has been found in Tennessee recently and there are fears that it will spread to all black walnuts in the East and eliminate it from our forests. Will we have any tree species left with all the organisms that are attacking them? Learn more...
Center for Plant Conservation Reintroduction Registry
In October of 2009 the Center for Plant Conservation hosted a conference on evaluating plant reintroductions. As a result they established a Reintroduction Registry to enter and view projects that have reintroduced native plants into known or new habitats. There is...
2010 Catskill Watershed Conference Announcement
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County's Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, US Geological Survey, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, and the...
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