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Botanist Using Apple iPad In The Field
Below is a photo of botanist David Werier using his iPad in the field to look at plant manuals he has stored on it. David says it saves him a lot of weight and he can carry many references that would have been impossible to bring in the field in the past. It has a...
EMERALD ASH BORER DETECTED IN STEUBEN AND ULSTER COUNTIES
From a DEC Press Release: Additional Investigation Planned After Invasive Beetles Found in Traps New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis and state Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker today announced the discovery of the...
Update to Small Whorled Pogonia Orchid Discovery
After the initial discovery this summer of Isotria medeoloides in Orange County, a follow-up survey was done this week and almost 100 more plants were counted. That is an encouraging sign that the plant is doing well and may be in other areas. The New York Natural...
Do You Know What a Novel Ecosystem Is?
The concept of Novel Ecosystems is gaining traction in the conservation community and will have implications with how preserves and other natural areas are managed (less management of invasive species for example). In the words of one ecologist, "Novel systems will...
Ed Ketchledge, NY Botanist and Educator, Dies at 85
From Steve Young - NY Natural Heritage Program This link is to an obituary in the Watertown Daily Times: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20100702/OBIT01/307029958/-1/obit I met Dr. Ketchledge in 1971 when I was his undergraduate student in dendrology at...
In Search of Long Island Rare Plants 2 – White-edge Sedge
From Steve Young - NY Natural Heritage Program Earlier in June I travelled down to the South Fork of Long Island where, with funding from The Nature Conservancy, I explored various natural areas in search of rare plant populations that have not been seen in 20 years...
Scientific Name Changes in the New Rare Plant Status List
The 2010 Rare Plant Status Lists contain some scientific name changes that are listed here, old name first then new name. To see further explanations of why they were changed you can type the new name into the NY Flora Atlas. www.atlas.nyflora.org. Some of the...
Flora Protected Around Hemlock and Canadice Lakes
From a DEC press release: City of Rochester, State Preserve Last Two Undeveloped Finger Lakes in New York (Thursday, July 1, 2010) – Rochester Mayor Robert J. Duffy and State Environmental Commissioner Pete Grannis announced today that New York State has completed the...
NYS INVASIVE SPECIES COUNCIL RELEASES PLAN TO COMBAT INVASIVE SPECIES IN NYS
The following is from a DEC press release: Report Identifies New Process to Categorize Non-Native Invasive Species The New York State Invasive Species Council today (July 6) submitted its final report to Governor David A. Paterson and the State Legislature. The...
Martin Jetpack a Boon to Botanists?
There have been many times in the field when I have seen botanists look across a large marsh or up a high cliff and say, "I wish I had a jetpack to fly out there and take a look." Well, the day has come and the first commercially available jetpack, the Martin...
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