Partners are invited to this in-person meeting to discuss what work is being done in invasive species management in the Catskills. We would like each participating Partner to give a brief oral report on their organization’s activities. Please be prepared to highlight the work that you have done in these categories:

Advocacy, Community Science, Control and Rapid Response. Databases. Education and Trainings, Early Detection, Funding, Prevention, Research, Restoration, Surveys and Mapping

We’ll incorporate that discussion into better ways to collaborate. Please RSVP to invasives@catskillcenter.org

Immediately following the meeting, Mountain Top Arboretum’s Executive Director, Marc Wolf, is offering a special tour that will include not only the amazing facilities but also the unique habitats of the Arboretum! The tour will highlight the Arboretum's timber frame Education Center, built from twenty-one tree species harvested from the Arboretum’s forest and from Devonian bedrock on which the Education Center sits. We will tour the native plantings around the Education Center, which feature a series of six interconnected rain gardens, woodland edges and bedrock outcrops. We will visit Emerald Bog, the oldest carbon-dated bog in the Catskills, and Hidden Marsh, a 14-acre marshland at 2400’ elevation.