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Try and Collect Some Dodders This Summer
Dodders of the genus Cuscuta are those strange looking parasitic plants that grow like orange spaghetti over herbaceus vegetation and low shrubs. They are hard to identify because their flowers and fruits are so small that it takes a good hand lens or microscope to...
Lots Blooming on the Saratoga Woods and Waterways Blog
Check out all of the beautiful photographs of plants blooming along the upper Hudson River this time of year. Click the link in our list to the right.
Invasive Plants and Wildlife: “The Good, the Bad and the Really Bad”
LIVING ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE Invasive Plants and Wildlife: “The Good, the Bad and the Really Bad” An Environmental Education Multi-disciplinary Workshop for Educators August 3-7, 2009, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM daily This exciting, hands-on workshop will include field study...
Volunteer Seed Collectors Needed
From Dorothy J. Allard: Working with the USDA Forest Service and its partners, I am coordinating a volunteer project to collect native seeds for use in vegetation restoration and erosion control in the northeastern US. This year we are hoping to solicit botanists who...
Staten Island Protectors of Pine Oak Woods Hosts Many Plant Walks
If you are on Staten Island this summer join the Protectors for one of their many plant walks. Their schedule for July through September has just been released. See them by clicking here.
New York State DOT Website on Dangerous Plants
The New York State Department of Transportation now has a website featuring plants that can be dangerous to touch or with dangerous sap. There is information about the plants along with photographs. Access the site at:...
Carex Identification Videos Being Posted on YouTube
In 2008 Steve Young filmed Tony Reznicek identifying Carex species during the NYFA Sedge Workshop in Saint Lawrence County. These videos are now being made available on YouTube. On YouTube click on Channels and search for nyflora1. The Carex videos will be listed. ...
New Rare Plant Finds for Franklin County
A new large occurrence of rhodora, Rhododendron canadense, was found in southern Franklin County this Spring and a new occurrence of fragrant wood-fern, Dryopteris fragrans, was found on a mountainside in the northern part of the county. Both occurrences were found by...
Update on the Biodiversity Research Institute Program & Biennial Report, 2007-2008
A copy of the recently completed Biennial Report is now available as a pdf on the BRI website: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/bri/. As required, the report is electronic and cannot be distributed as a printed copy. The report highlights the activities of the past two years...
Reviving the American Chestnut May Help Climate Change: Purdue Study
See the progress Purdue University is having on reviving the American chestnut. Click here.
A Combination of Woolly Adelgid and White Tailed Deer Increases Invasives
A study by the University of California has some interesting implications for hemlock forests in New York. See the study at the University of California.
Invasive Plants in the Northeast of Asia and America: Trading Problems,
Dates: 10-12 August 2009, at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Symposium sponsored by the New England Invasive Plant Center For more information, the symposium agenda & schedule, and to register see:...
Large twayblade, Liparis lilifolia, in Canada and New York
Holly Bickerton, a Canadian biologist, is preparing the Canadian COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) status report update for large twayblade, Liparis liliifolia (S2 for ON, S1 for QUE), also a state endangered orchid in New York. She...
DEC AND PARTNERS TO TRACK POSSIBLE SPREAD OF INVASIVE BEETLE
Emerald Ash Borer Traps Are Being Deployed Throughout the State The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), along with other federal and state agencies, is setting baited traps in ash trees across upstate New York in an effort to search for...
Visit The Adirondack Park Nature Report Website
You will find a lot of interesting articles, audio reports and videos about nature and the Adirondacks including many articles about plants. Check it out! http://www.adkparknature.net/
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