CLWA

Education Program at Marcus Whitman: 3rd Grade
2022-03-15 05:00 - 07:00 (America/New_York) | Gorham Elementary
3rd Grade Lesson:
Students will be introduced to what a watershed is and learn about how it functions by viewing a few different models of one. The majority of the lesson is focused on the use of the EnviroScape watershed model in order to demonstrate how storm water runoff carries non-point source pollutants through the watershed to a pond, lake, river, bay, or ocean. Best management practices to prevent this type of pollution is then discussed.

Education Program at Canandaigua: 3rd Grade
2022-03-11 04:00 - 10:00, 2022-03-08 04:00 - 10:00 | Canandaigua Elementary

Education Program at Naples: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade
2022-03-04 03:00 - 08:30
3rd Grade Lesson:
Students will be introduced to what a watershed is and learn about how it functions by viewing a few different models of one. The majority of the lesson is focused on the use of the EnviroScape watershed model in order to demonstrate how storm water runoff carries non-point source pollutants through the watershed to a pond, lake, river, bay, or ocean. Best management practices to prevent this type of pollution is then discussed.
4th Grade Lesson:
This lesson reinforces and expands on elementary science representations of key water cycle dynamics. It includes relevant terminology and a conservation/protection message about one of Earth’s most valuable and finite resources.
5th Grade Lesson:
Students will learn about the different ways humans use the land and the potential impacts these uses can have on water quality.

Education Program at Naples: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade
2022-03-02 04:00 - 08:30 | Naples Elementary School

Education Program at Naples: 4th and 5th Grade
2022-03-01 03:00 - 05:00 | Naples Elementary School
4th Grade Lesson:
This lesson reinforces and expands on elementary science representations of key water cycle dynamics. It includes relevant terminology and a conservation/protection message about one of Earth’s most valuable and finite resources.

5th Grade Lesson:
Students will learn about the different ways humans use the land and the potential impacts these uses can have on water quality.

Education Program at Naples: 3rd and 5th Grade
2022-02-28 04:00 - 07:00
3rd Grade Lesson:
Students will be introduced to what a watershed is and learn about how it functions by viewing a few different models of one. The majority of the lesson is focused on the use of the EnviroScape watershed model in order to demonstrate how storm water runoff carries non-point source pollutants through the watershed to a pond, lake, river, bay, or ocean. Best management practices to prevent this type of pollution is then discussed.

5th Grade:
Students will learn about the different ways humans use the land and the potential impacts these uses can have on water quality.

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Survey Training Workshop
2022-02-27 08:00 - 10:00 | Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Road, Naples, NY, 14512, United States
The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) is an invasive forest pest that is threatening hemlock trees across the Finger Lakes region. HWA poses a significant threat to the structure of our watershed gullies, the beauty of our lakeside properties, and ultimately, our water quality.
Mapping the occurrence of HWA is of critical importance as we develop future HWA management efforts. You can help by learning to identify hemlocks and HWA, and reporting your findings using iMapInvasives.
Join us for an HWA Survey Training and Hike on Sunday, February 27th at 1:00 PM at Cumming Nature Center in Naples, NY to learn more about this invasive and what you can do to help.
Registration is required: https://forms.gle/Mm3KmBh6x5VdVQSTA
Leading up to the event, we ask that you make an iMapInvasives account by visiting https://www.imapinvasives.org/ on a desktop or laptop computer. It will also be helpful to download the iMapInvasives app on your smartphone device.
*Masks will be required at this event*

Public Presentation: Update of the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Plan
2022-02-18 09:00 - 11:00 | Via Zoom
Public Presentation: Update of the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Plan, February 18th at 2 pm
A public meeting will be held to provide an update on the process to incorporate the EPA Nine Elements into the existing watershed plan for Canandaigua Lake.
The public will be able to comment on updating the plan at the meeting and on the Watershed Council’s website: https://www.canandaigualake.org/9e-plan
Presenters will include Watershed Council staff and professors and a doctoral student from Cornell University. They will:

Review the existing Watershed Plan
Describe the process to update the plan to a 9 Element Plan
Summarize computer modeling and water quality monitoring helping to estimate pollution loads, and
Provide a draft set of Best Management Practices with pollution reduction estimates.

This public meeting will be held virtually via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81776568894…
Meeting ID: 817 7656 8894
Passcode: [REDACTED]
One tap mobile: 19292056099
Contact the Watershed Council:
(585) 396-3630
klo@canandaiguanewyork.gov

CLWA Board Meeting
2022-02-15 11:30 - 13:00 | Via Zoom

Education Program at Marcus Whitman: 5th Grade
2022-02-09 04:00 - 07:00
Students will learn about the different ways humans use the land and the potential impacts these uses can have on water quality.

Communications Committee Meeting
2022-02-02 11:30 - 13:00 | Via Zoom

Citizen Science Committee Meeting
2022-02-02 05:30 - 07:00, 2022-01-05 05:30 - 07:00 | Via Zoom

Membership Committee Meeting
2022-02-01 07:00 - 08:30 | Via Zoom

Fire and Ice Festival
2022-02-01 03:00 - 12:00
Stop by the CLWA booth at the Fire and Ice Festival Saturday, February 19th or Sunday, February 20th to talk with CLWA Board Members and participate in a family friendly activity!

CLWA Board Meeting
2022-01-18 11:30 - 13:00, 2021-12-21 11:30 - 13:00

Government Relations Meeting
2022-01-18 07:00 - 08:00 | Via Zoom

Education Committee Meeting
2022-01-14 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-12-17 08:45 - 09:45 | Via Zoom

Communications Committee Meeting
2022-01-12 11:30 - 13:00

Membership Meeting
2022-01-04 07:00 - 08:00 | Via Zoom

Government Relations Committee
2021-12-21 07:00 - 08:00 | Via Zoom

Outreach Committee Meeting
2021-12-16 05:00 - 18:30 | Via Zoom

Dark Times for Bats
2021-10-28 15:00 - 16:00 | FLCC Stage 14
Join us for a discussion of the bats of New York, in which we will learn of their unique natural history that for thousands of years made them masters in the hidden world of the night sky. Join in the discussion of how researchers were just beginning to understand their world in New York when, in just the last few decades, many of these same traits have become a liability that has suddenly put many species at risk of extinction. Learn of the Columbian Exchange and how it is affecting not just bats, but many other species in your back yard, and how global warming looms over us all as the greatest threat our society has ever faced. Learn how you can make a difference.
Al Hicks was the mammal specialist for New York State’s endangered species program from its inception in 1979 to his retirement in 2010. In that role he established the first comprehensive monitoring program of bat distribution and abundance ever conducted in the state, and one of the very first in the country. It was the New York Team that discovered the disease White-Nose Syndrome, which has caused the largest die-off of mammals ever recorded and continues to this day.
After retirement he founded a consulting company that did bat-related studies. In the last three years he has become a volunteer with Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a non-partisan, non profit, international organization focused entirely on climate change, which works with elected officials at all levels to find and implement effective solutions to the climate crisis.

Register at the link below:
https://forms.gle/ni6ASnyXagppRH9Z7

*Event is limited to 50 people. Register today!

HISTORY OF GLACIAL LAKES IN THE CANANDAIGUA VALLEY
2021-10-23 15:00 - 16:00 | FLCC Stage 14
*EVENT REGISTRATION CLOSED*
Cyclical periods of global warming and cooling during the last 2.5 million years of Earth history led to multiple episodes of massive, advancing continental ice sheets in eastern North America. In the Finger Lakes region, the most recent advance, a nearly two mile thick ice sheet formally known as the Wisconsin Stage, began 75,000 years ago and ended just 12,000 years ago.
By reading the modern topography, we can reasonably reconstruct the landscape appearance and historical story of glacial lakes that once stood in the Canandaigua Valley. At this talk, Dr. Bruce Gilman (Professor Emeritus of Environmental Conservation at Finger Lakes Community College) will discuss the geologic history of two periglacial lakes – Glacial Lake Naples and Glacial Lake Middlesex – and the movement of retreating ice sheets that eventually gave way to our modern lake. Full talk description here: https://cutt.ly/wEWRbuUxx
Dr. Bruce Gilman is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Conservation at Finger Lakes Community College. In his retirement, he remains involved in many aspects of freshwater conservation, serving as a member of the Honeoye Lake Watershed Taskforce, consulting scientist for the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Council, gubernatorial appointee to the NYS Open Space Committee, steering committee member for the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management, and scientific advisor to the Ontario County Water Resources Council. He conducted his doctoral research, which he received from SUNY ESF, at the Conservancy’s Limerick Cedars Preserve. Bruce is an avid birder, Adirondack 46’er, field botanist and author of the Ontario County Flora. He enjoys time spent growing up again with his daughters and grandchildren. Bruce lives with his wife Margo in Middlesex, near Canandaigua Lake, and has a cottage on Honeoye Lake.
Email: Bruce.Gilman@retiree.flcc.edu

*EVENT REGISTRATION FULL*

*This indoor event will be limited to 50 people and masks are required per FLCC guidelines.

10 Seeds to Sow in September
2021-09-01 14:30 - 15:30 | Via Zoom
Join us for this online event with Petra Page-Mann, Naples-native and Fruition Seed co-founder, for gardening tips from this life-long gardener and to learn about the easiest seeds to sow in September. It’s not too late to surround yourself with abundance this fall!
Growing up in her father’s garden in the Finger Lakes, Petra believes each seed and each of us is in the world to change the world. Her passion, curiosity, love of food and love of people led her all over the world studying seed, song and culture worth celebrating. In 2012, she co-founded Fruition Seeds with her partner Matthew to share the seeds, knowledge and inspiration gardeners crave to amplify our individual as well as collective abundance in our short seasons. If she’s not farming she is singing, skiing, snuggling her dogs, hunting mushrooms or learning something new.
All attendees will be entered to win a free seed packet from Fruition Seeds!

Register in advance for this meeting at the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpc-utrTIqG91m9-QDRy8iREA9MXwK7uCa

Bare Hill Wildflower Walk
2021-08-14 06:00 - 08:00 | Bare Hill Unique Area, 5950 Van Epps Road, Rushville, NY, 14544, United States
Guided Hike with Maura Sullivan
*Rain Date: Saturday August 28th, 10:00 am-12:00 pm*
Finger Lakes Community College Conservation professor, Maura Sullivan, will lead us on a late summer botany walk at Bare Hill Unique Area (5950 Van Epps Rd). We will be sure to enjoy the sites of many late summer wildflowers (e.g. asters, goldenrods, etc.) but you are also encouraged to bring your binoculars for bird viewing and tree identification.
Maura teaches courses in botany, ecology, and wetlands as well as a travel course in South Africa. She and her students have also contributed to invasive species monitoring projects at Cumming Nature Center (Naples, NY), Onanda Park (Canandaigua, NY) and Lagoon Park (Canandaigua, NY). She lives with her husband and two girls in Naples, NY

Register at the link below:
https://forms.gle/EAaR6A8fxcRDPsCq9

Link to Bare Hill Unique Area website:
https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/37438.html

2021 CLWA ANNUAL MEETING
2021-08-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Via Zoom
The Annual Meeting is a great place to hear about current watershed initiatives! Join us virtually for a business meeting with our year in review, officer and director elections, reports from the Chair and Treasurer, and award recognitions including the announcement of our 2021 Photo Contest winners.
After the business meeting, stay for a presentation with Dr. Lisa Cleckner, Director of the Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, on Canandaigua Lake research initiatives. Please visit canandaigualakeassoc.org for registration information and online voting.
Register by clicking this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApf–mvrT8iE9Z0QiI0nfZ6kJ4bh60o4ppJ
