SLELO PRISM

July 21-23 Jefferson Community College, Watertown NY Event Details ReLeaf is a part of the Urban Forestry Program at NYSDEC and it is run in partnership with the NYS Urban Forestry Council. This year’s ReLeaf Conference is “Trees Bring Us Together.” The keynote speaker for the conference is Ian Leahy, Vice President of Urban Forestry […]

Teachers and educators from across New York are invited to join the New York Sea Grant and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation this summer for FREE WORKSHOPS to learn about GreatLakes educational resources! Great Lakes Ecosystem Education Exchange Summer Workshops - Throughout July and August, NYSG and the DEC will be hosting […]

Help remove water chestnut from Guffin Bay on Monday, August 1st, 9 am-12 pm. REGISTER Meet: on the corner of Old Moffatt Road and Road 212 in Dexter NY (Google Map) Event Duration: 9am-12pm Description: Easy 10-15 minute paddle from the launch site to Guffin Creek. We will travel the creek and pull water chestnuts as they […]

Monday, August 8th 6 pm Via Zoom REGISTER Want to make a difference in your community? Want to help the environment? Need a reason to get outside and back in shape? Join the Trail Trek! The Trail Trek is a volunteer initiative by the Finger Lakes PRISM to find three of the worst invasive species […]

Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Curriculum Workshop – on August 18th & 19th, NYSG and the Center for Great Lakes Literacy will be hosting a free two-day workshop in Buffalo, NY to learn from regional experts on climate change and coastal resilience in the Great Lakes and work together to develop new lesson plans and activities […]

Thursday, August 25th 1 pm-2 pm EST via zoom REGISTER SLELO PRISM and APIPP PRISM are collaborating to continue environmental DNA sampling that has been occurring in SLELO PRISM and expand into the Adirondack region. The results from this project will help to improve our understanding of aquatic invasive species distribution and enhance our aquatic […]

The spotted lanternfly is out in full force in some parts of the state - luckily we have a network of professionals and volunteers working together to monitor its spread. Tune in to the next iMapInvaisves webinar on Wednesday, September 14th, at 10 AM to learn more about the spotted lanternfly, its preferred host plant […]

Join our partners at the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) for a free webinar from 10:00-11:30 am on Thursday, September 15, to learn about beech leaf disease (BLD) and how you can help survey for it in the Adirondack region. BLD was first detected in Ohio in 2012 and in New York State in […]

Enjoy a guided walk in the woods, and learn to recognize and report the newest threat to American Beech Trees: Beech Leaf Disease (BLD). Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust (THTLT), the St. Lawrence-Eastern Lake Ontario Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (SLELO PRISM), and NYS DEC Forest Health Specialist Maria MoskaLee will lead the program. […]

This event is jointly sponsored by the Québec government office in Chicago and Marquette University’s Water Law and Policy Initiative. It is presented in conjunction with Current’s Chicago Water Week 2022. The conversation is expected to cover invasive species management approaches in a variety of contexts, including the effort to prevent invasive carp from entering […]

Join our partners at APIPP, and the Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, for the Invasive Species at Our Door: Adirondack Invasive Species Summit. This free, day-long event will focus on the threat and the opportunity to manage two invasive species that have the potential to dramatically impact Adirondack forests and freshwater ecosystems—hemlock […]

Join our partners with the New York Sea Grant (NYSG) for an informative workshop from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 21, 2022, to provide shoreline residents and contractors an overview of shoreline management techniques with a concentration on the use of natural and nature-based features. NYSG has organized the free "Working with […]