WATERTOWN â The Tug Hill Commission and its partners at the Lewis, Jefferson, Hamilton, Herkimer and Oneida County Soil and Water Conservation Districts and the state Department of Environmental Conservation Region 6 will present âWatershed Wednesday Webinarsâ in May and June, as the in-person Black River Watershed Conference has been postponed again this year.
All webinars are free, presented via Zoom and require preregistration. This information is also available on the commission’s website at tughill.org/black-river-watershed-wednesdays-2021.
â Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in a Changing Climate: Changing Forests and Identification and Management, 3 p.m. Wednesday
Dr. Lindsey Rustad will give an overview of her 30-plus years of research in New Hampshireâs White Mountains on how climate is altering the composition of northeastern forests, from a global perspective to local impacts. Caroline Marschner will discuss eastern hemlock, its role in New York ecosyste
WATERTOWN — The Tug Hill Commission and its partners at the Lewis, Jefferson, Hamilton, Herkimer and Oneida County Soil and Water Conservation Districts and the state Department of Environmental Conservation
Watertown Daily Times The state Department of Environmental Conservation this week released its two-year progress report on Great Lakes restoration, noting 103 of 124 actions have progressed since being written in 2015. The 20-page report details 2018-20 progress across several projects on Lake Erie, the St. Lawrence River, Genesee River, Black River and the Finger Lakes, as well as the state’s areas of concern listed by the federal government. Prepared as part of the DEC’s Great Lakes Program, the report is based on the Great Lakes Action Agenda, a set of multi-year restoration and management goals that involve local, state and federal plans. The program and agenda are driven by an ecosystems-based management approach, which prioritizes environmental restoration and resource management simultaneously with community resiliency and stewardship.