POTSDAM â In January, a team of researchers and staff at Clarkson Universityâs Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries completed a year-long invasive species research project in Denningâs Point State Park in Beacon, NY.
The team was awarded a $20,000 grant in Spring 2020 to address a common problem on parks and preserves: invasive plants requiring strategic management to protect rare plants and important habitats. The project was contracted by the Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (LHPRISM) with funds from the Environmental Protection Fund as administered by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
For the first time in more than 10 years, Denningâs Point Park was surveyed for invasive and rare native plants as a partnership between Clarksonâs Beacon Institute and Hudsonia, a non-profit environmental research institute. This project provided an update to a biological survey conducted by Hudsonia at Denningâs Point in 2008.