MaMA is an innovative approach that provides hope for conserving ash and mitigating damage from the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), which threatens killing virtually all the ash trees in the area; training includes instruction in MaMA’s citizen-science and land-manager projects to find EAB-resistant trees.

Celebrate New York State's fifth Invasive Species Awareness Week with an Invasive Species Teach-In at the Wilber Park upper pavilion in Oneonta between 11am and 3pm. 

Four years ago, the Catskill Center planted four rows of young hemlocks, as a future biological control release location for hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA). On July 14th, we will be repairing the fence that has protected the hemlocks from deer herbivory, to keep them healthy as they grow.

Come learn all about Japanese knotweed biology and control methods with an interactive pull at the Thorn Preserve.

The CRISP team will be staffing a table at the Woodstock Farm Festival, answering questions about invasive species from 3:30 to 7:30.

In this training, join one of the New York State Hemlock Initiative’s experienced field technicians as they take you through the yearly phenology of hemlock woolly adelgid. Learn how to identify HWA in the field during any time of year.

Come learn about the invasive spotted lanternfly, how to identify both it and its invasive host, tree of heaven. Learn who to report sightings of this pest to, and where to check for egg masses.

Join CRISP and the National Park Service to learn all about best management practices for mile a minute and help pull this invader from a heavily infested site along the Delaware River.

The Ecological Research Institute (ERI), under contract with CRISP, is presenting a series of MaMA single-session training workshops at which attendees learn, among other things, how to establish ash mortality monitoring plots for the MaMA Monitoring Plot Network extending throughout the Catskills and beyond.

Join Hemlock Health Intern Skyler Susnick on a hike to see an old growth hemlock stand and learn more about hemlocks and their major threat, hemlock woolly adelgid.  

Together we will survey Kenneth Wilson campground to make sure Mile-a-Minute doesn’t spread on to the property, pulling any vines that we find. 

CRISP staff will be joining NYC DEP to staff a table at the Pakatakan Farmers' Market, answering questions from 9am to 2pm.

The Catskill Center and Spillian connect July 15th, for a day of ecosystem restoration, music and food!

Wondering what plants belong along a Catskill stream and which are pure mischief?

July 12th, spend a summer morning learning about invasive plants from the Catskill Regional Invasive Partnership, Dan Snider, and learn about best methods for removal.

Join us Tuesday morning for a one-mile, moderate hike to a beautiful waterfall and learn how hemlock trees provide habitat for both fish and wildlife and discover what the Catskill Center and its partners are doing to conserve them.