I’ve always loved trees. I treasure my walks on the wooded trails at INWR…the Kanyoo, the Swallow Hollow and the Onondaga. Now, since reading The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, I see the …
This morning I spotted a Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on the flowering Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) in my backyard. Monarchs are from the Nymphalidae (nym-PHAL-li-dee) family, subfamily Danainae (dah-NAY-i-nee) because their larval host plants are …
Chowon Kim, age 17, of Bayside, New York, has been chosen as the Best of Show winner of the 2020-2021 New York Junior Duck Stamp Competition. Kim’s impressive acrylic rendering of a hooded merganser, entitled …
This year’s YCC crew has been very busy! We have four YCC members and two leaders this summer. Kari Neilson, from the Student Conservation Association, has been working alongside Bethany Crahen to lead Taylor Burns …
During the month of May Iroquois NWR completed its first forest improvement project which focused on replacing a non-native conifer plantation with native tree species. The first planting consisted of a 17 acre plantation that …
