by Friends INWR | Sep 8, 2025 | Homepage Feed
Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge celebrated its new pollinator garden on Saturday at the Cayuga Overlook. The meadow was mostly the work of Dave O’Donnell, president of the Eastern Monarch Butterly Farm in Clarence. “This was a wonderful team effort, and we will...
by Friends INWR | Aug 23, 2025 | Homepage Feed, Volunteers
Carl Zenger of Lockport has received a New York state Senate commendation from Minority Leader Sen. Robert G. Ortt in recognition of Zenger’s volunteer work at the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. Zenger, a retired mechanical engineer, has been recognized by peers,...
by Friends INWR | Jul 29, 2025 | Blog, Homepage Feed, Volunteers
Carl Zenger of Lockport has been awarded the Refuge Volunteer of the Year in the 2025 National Wildlife Refuge Awards by the National Wildlife Refuge Association. A former board member of the Friends of Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, Zenger, a retired mechanical...
by Friends INWR | Apr 26, 2025 | Blog, Homepage Feed
In a cleanup sponsored by Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, 35 volunteers braved the elements Saturday morning to pick up litter at Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. The Spring Sweep was part of the annual Great Lakes CleanUP, in which thousands across the Great Lakes...
by Friends INWR | Apr 17, 2025 | Blog, Homepage Feed
Friends of Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge officers Dick Moss and Emma DeLeon were Bob Confer’s guests Wednesday, April 16, for an episode of WNY Tonight, a public access TV show out of Lockport. Their discussion topics included migrating and nesting birds, eagle...
by Friends INWR | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog, Homepage Feed
By Patti Singer High on Tom Roster’s to-do list when he arrived at Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge in November 2004 was getting Swallow Hollow Trail in shape and repairing the handicap-accessible boardwalk. “That was a very big and impressive project that had a lot...
