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2016 Field Notes: Silver Lake Survey
On July 29, WNY PRISM surveyed Silver Lake in Wyoming County, for aquatic and terrestrial invasive plants. Silver Lake has a maximum depth of 37ft and around 7 miles of shoreline, and the outlet and inlet of the lake both sit on the north end of the lake, less than...
2016 Field Notes: Native Planting at Tifft
WNY PRISM assisted staff at Tifft Nature Preserve this summer with planting over 2250 native plant plugs, as part of their continuing efforts to increase the diversity of native plants as well as combat the invasive plants which threaten these habitats. Over the...
2016 Field Notes: IS Management
WNY PRISM partnered with WNY Land Conservancy to implement invasive species removal projects at two Niagara County Preserves.
Purple Loosestrife Beetle (Galerucella spp.) Collection
– WNY PRISM Crew visited Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) to help with the collection of a biocontrol (Galerucella calmariensis and G. pusilla) for purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria).
Chautauqua Lake Outlet Survey
The PRISM Crew traveled to Chautauqua County to aid the Chautauqua Lake Association with searching for (and destroying!) water chestnut (Trapa natans) and hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata) in the Chautauqua Lake Outlet