Imagine Chautauqua County as a living, breathing entity, with water as its lifeblood. Just as our own health depends on a well-functioning immune system, the health of our waterbodies relies on the functioning of their surrounding watersheds. I like to think of this relationship between water ...
When I first started working at Audubon, people often talked about how Roger would have loved this or that. They talked about his passion and support for Audubon, and how much they missed him. As a new employee, I assumed that they were talking about a beloved volunteer that had passed and, ...
It has often been said amongst old hydrologists that the lake at the bottom of a watershed contains all that exists in that watershed - from the most distant ridge all the way down to lakeside gardens and lawns. A watershed is the basin-shaped piece of land with highpoints as its ...
Several years ago, I interned at an outdoor school in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Like much of California, it tended to be dry for most of the year, with a somewhat wetter late winter and early spring. While there, I spent most of my time as an educator leading ...
Of course, there are far more than two species of tree in Jamestown, but I want to highlight two types of trees: beneficial native ones and invasive Tree-of-Heaven. Specifically, I want to illustrate how these tree types are connected in a somewhat surprising way – and how their fate ...
July is a month for insects. That statement generally hits people in one of three ways. Some people will stay inside for the month of July to avoid them. Some folks will be utterly indifferent. Others will go out and celebrate them. For me, celebrating them is important. There is a ...
