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Teatown launches collaborative program with Pace University
Following a successful pilot program, Teatown and Pace University have officially launched a collaborative program which includes a college field biology course that brings Pace University students into the heart of Teatown’s 1,000-acre nature preserve.
Teatown Hosts Workshop in Effort to combat Invasive Pests
Presentations included information on the identification, management and emerging threat level of the following pests to our region: viburnum leaf beetle, sirex wood wasp, oak wilt, southern pine beetle, winter moth and thousand cankers.
An Unusually Warm Spring
Teatown has maintained sugaring records since 2001 with notations on the weather preceding the sugaring season, the start and end dates of the season and the amount of syrup produced. Beginning in 2006 our records indicate unseasonably warm pre-season temperatures, and from 2009 on, there are repeated exhortations in the notes to begin tapping earlier.
Teatown hosts american eel sample site
Teatown is coordinating volunteers for this sample site as a part of NYS Department of Environmental Conservation's initiative to further understand this mysterious fish.
Teatown Trail System Overhaul Completed
On January 19, The Trail Tramps, a local volunteer group, finished the final bridge needed to complete the Teatown trail system overhaul that began in Fall 2014.