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Make a Positive Environmental Impact for Invasive Species Awareness Week!
National Invasive Species Awareness Week runs from February 20th to 26th. Each year, this week-long environmentalist initiative helps raise awareness about invasive species, the impacts they have on our ecosystems and environments, and ways scientists, governments, and citizens across the world can help prevent their spread. Invasive species can be non-native plants, animals or insects…
MLJ | September 20th, 2019
A breakwater that for more than a century has helped protect boats and travelers crossing Lake Champlain may soon be getting a mutil-million-dollar makeover. We’ll talk with the Lake Champlain Basin Program’s Meg Modley about that project, and others to help protect the lake from invasive species. Plus we talk with organizers of Homeward Bound…
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Hunting Season
Volunteers have been heading out into the woods this winter hunting for signs of an invasive insect, a tiny, destructive bug that has found its way to the Adirondacks. If it spreads, the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid could threaten millions of Hemlock trees throughout the Adirondack Park. While scientists and environmentalists are working to combat it,…
Slowing the spread of invasive species
Jack LaDuke reports on legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to help prevent the spread of invasive species. Two invasive insects, the Emerald Ash Borer and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid have been discovered this summer, for the first time within the Adirondack Park, and threaten millions of Ash and Hemlock trees. Insecticides can slow the…
Invasive Tree Beetle
The familiar traps we’ve seen hanging in trees across the North Country have finally captured a destructive insect that foresters fear could kill millions of Ash trees in Northern New York. Emerald Ash Borers have been found for the first time in the Adirondacks, turning up in traps in Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties. More…
Invaders Threaten Adirondacks
There have been a couple of close calls this summer with invasive species in the Adirondack Park. Lake Stewards intercepted an incredibly aggressive aquatic plant, called Hydrilla, at a boat launch on Upper Saranac Lake. Local leaders, lake associations, and environmental groups warn Hydrilla, which spreads rapidly and creates thick, dense mats of plants, could…
Adirondack Invaders – Bonus Interview with Brendan Quirion
Brendan Quirion also talks about a new study he has authored on tackling another invasive plant that has become a common sight along highways in the Adirodacks, Phragmites. The study suggests that it is possible to control Phragmites if the infestation is caught early on.
Lake Invaders
This week we talk with two experts about the on-going battle to keep invasive species out of Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Park. Meg Modley, who is an Aquatic Invasive Species Management Coordinator with the Lake Champlain Basin Program, and Brendan Quirion, who is the Program Director for the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program, join…
Invasive Species – Bonus Interview
Watch our extended interview with Meg Modley and Brendan Quirion where we discuss efforts to combat Asian Clams, as well as worries the invasive species may soon find its way to Lake Champlain.