St. Lawrence-Eastern Lake Ontario Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management
Important events & dates
Our partners will list meetings, updates, workshops, and other notices here as they arise. Your contributions to this list are most welcome. Please send your news & updates to Megan Pistolese, megan.pistolese@tnc.org, include a date/location/description/contact for events, thank you.
PRISM Partner Meeting Schedule: Our PRISM partners have decided to meet on a seasonal/quarterly basis. We will continue to meet the third week of these months: January, April, July, and October alternating between Wednesdays and Thursdays. For information on upcoming meetings and locations, please contact Rob Williams, the PRISM Coordinator at rwilliams@tnc.org
PRISM Invasive Species Webinars are held the last Wednesday of each month (except, July, August, and December). To join in on these webinars please contact Rob Williams rwilliams@tnc.org
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June 2019
Invasive Species Mapping Challenge Webinar
Take the Invasive Species Mapping Challenge! EVENT FLIER Join us for a webinar on Wednesday, June 26 from 12:15 to 1:15 PM to learn about jumping worms, tree-of-heaven, and water chestnut—three invasive species that are under-reported in New York State. Learn how to identify these invaders and how to enter your findings into the iMapInvasives database. Use your knowledge to participate in a statewide competition from June 26 to July 17. Compete for cool prizes and bragging rights! Register here: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/63ff741a84d478c0dc2040ba88984b7b Can’t make it to the webinar on June 26? No worries! It will be recorded and posted on YouTube. We hope you partake in the challenge! For questions or comments, please feel free to email emma.antolos@dec.ny.gov.
Find out more »October 2019
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Walk & Talk
Help Protect Hemlock Trees An invasive insect called Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) kills hemlock trees. Hemlocks are a key tree species and loss of hemlock populations would dramatically reduce the overall health of our forests and urban green spaces. Help us track the spread and absence of this invasive forest pest via iMapInvasives Join us for a Guided Walk and Learn How You Can Help When: Friday, October 25th 3pm-5pm Where: Wachmastier Field Station located on County Rt. 27 in Canton, NY We will meet at 2:50 pm at the Wachmastier Field Station and CARPOOL to the Pike Road entrance for a guided walk on the Kip Trail. Please register online by clicking here EVENT FLIER Talking Points: Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Impacts/Signs of Infestation Hemlock Tree Identification & Ecology How to Survey for HWA How to Report Observations Using the iMapInvasives Mobile App (Please create an iMapInvasives user account and download the mobile app prior to attending)
Find out more »November 2019
Webinar-New Tools for Identifying and Prioritizing Range-Shifting Invasive Plants
On November 5 from 2-3 pm, the Northeast IPM Center will be hosting a webinar on "New tools for identifying and prioritizing range-shifting invasive plants". Here's the link to register. Description Join Jenica Allen and Bethany Bradley to learn about new tools for identifying and prioritizing range-shifting invasive plants coming soon to a landscape near you. Whether you’re a property owner, land manager, landscape professional, or policymaker, these tools are for you. Drs. Allen and Bradley will provide a live demonstration of the tools and answer your questions about how climate change could influence invasive plants. Presenters Dr. Jenica Allen is the Campus Living Laboratory Manager at Mount Holyoke College. Her quantitative ecology work is focused on forecasting the effects of global change on ecological systems. Recent research investigated how climate and land-use change affect the geographic distributions of invasive plants, both in the Northeastern U.S. and nationally. She uses a translational ecology model, where stakeholders inform research needs and research findings are translated to stakeholder-relevant tools, through the Northeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Management Network. Jenica Allen, Campus Living Laboratory Manager, Mount Holyoke College Bethany Bradley, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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