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Delhi Homegrown National Park – Project Showcase – Panel Discussion Recording

Presented by Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS), this Project Showcase and Panel Discussion was recorded on March 15, 2022 as an overview of the 2021 Town of Delhi, NY Homegrown National Park Program.

In late Spring 2021, a group of community members from the Town of Delhi were awarded a Climate Action Leadership Grant from DOAS as part of our Audubon in Action program. Join DOAS for this special program where you can learn what this group accomplished and how they did it, ask questions and be inspired to start plans for your own community climate action native plants project! Municipal officials and community members throughout the DOAS region are encouraged to view!

A project steering committee spearheaded by DOAS Member, Kathy Mario consisted of 9 people – community members who work in the field of environmental sciences or sustainability in their region. By the time they began implementing their project, they had members of the village board, Delhi college professors, an educator in their area that works with NOAA, a staff person from their local Cooperative Extension, help from the Catskills Regional Invasive Species Partnership and others from the local community who committed to working with them and providing real support. They created displays and informational handouts, started a facebook and web page and were great about tracking their data and recording participants and people who received free plants.

This video showcases their project through a special panel discussion program as a kickoff to a new native plant sale fundraiser to add funding into the DOAS ‘climate action projects’ fund.

Our Panelists

Kathy Mario has a BS from St. Thomas Aquinas College and a Masters in Social Work from SUNY Stony Brook. She has worked in community development/education for the Peace Corps in the Philippines, and in Vocational Rehabilitation at the NYS Department of Education. Kathy loves spending time outdoors, and has been a Member of the National Audubon and Adirondack Mountain Club for over 40 years. Her passion for community development is demonstrated most recently in her role founding the Delhi Homegrown National Park Movement.

Carla Hegeman Crim is a Resource Educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension in Delaware County, NY. She has a B.S. in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University (1995), a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from Virginia Tech (1999) and did 4 years of Postdoctoral Research at Cornell (2000-2004). She oversees operations at Birdsong Farm Community Garden and runs the Master Gardener Volunteer Program. She has been gardening for over 20 years and has a small flower farming operation at home.

Eileen Kline is a retired middle and high school science teacher (2018) from South Kortright Central School in Delaware County (27 years). She started her science teaching career on the California central coast where she taught for five years. During her tenure, she taught and participated in ecology topics, watershed education, trail maintenance, tree planting, riparian buffer restoration, principally in Delaware County. Eileen has worked with the DOAS summer camp youth in recent years, on macro invertebrate sampling. She periodically substitute teaches at SKCS.

Jack Tessier has a Ph.D. from SUNY College of Environmental Science, and a B.A. and M.A. from SUNY Geneseo. He is a plant ecologist and works at SUNY Delhi. His research focuses on forest understory plants.

Lisa Tessier has degrees in landscape architecture from Cornell University (B.S.) and from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF, M.S.). Lisa presently teaches in the Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Sustainability programs at SUNY Delhi. She previously taught at Capital Community College and SUNY ESF, and has worked for two landscape architecture firms and a non-profit called the Center for Community Design Research.

Christina Viafore has a BS in Biology from SUNY Geneseo and serves on the Delhi Town Council in addition to several other community organizations. She is an advocate for sustainable living and spreading the word about important information that benefits the planet and community.

With Special Guest and Local Native Plant Expert, Connie Tedesco:
Botanist Connie Tedesco has a B.S. in Plant Sciences from Cornell and an M.A. in Biology from SUNY Oneonta where she studied the pollination biology of Jacob’s ladder, Polemonium vanbruntiae. She has worked on compiling the floras of Montgomery and Otsego Counties. Connie’s expertise is a tremendously valuable local resource. As a former board member and past recipient of the NY Flora Association’s Native Plant Conservation Award, she provides guidance you can trust for all your native plant needs. Connie will be available during the Q&A portion of the program.

Resources

Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS)
Website: https://doas.us/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/DelawareOtsegoAudubonSociety
Email:  info@doas.us

Phone: (for voicemail messages)
607-397-3815

 

DOAS Native Plant Sale Fundraiser
Pre-orders now through 5pm on April 22;
Plant pick up on May 21 at Town of Hartwick EV Car Show

https://doas.us/native-plant-sale-2022/

DOAS Network and Climate Action Leadership Group:
https://network.doas.us/

 

Carbon Tracker at DOAS – Start tracking your household carbon with goals to reducing to net-zero by 2040.
https://doas.us/carbon-tracker/

 

Cornell University – Alternatives to Invasive Plants

https://nysipm.cornell.edu/agriculture/ornamental-crops/greenhouse-resources/alternatives-ornamental-invasive-plants-sustainable-solution-new-york-state/ 

 

Delhi Homegrown National Park

Website: http://www.visitdelhiny.com/delhi-homegrown-national-park

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/delhihomegrown

 

March 2022 Presentation File – Delhi Homegrown National Park  (featured in program recording)

 

NYS iMapInvasives

https://www.nyimapinvasives.org/ 

 

NYS DEC Buffer in a Bag Program

https://www.dec.ny.gov/press/124734.html

 

NYS DEC Prohibited and Regulated Invasive Plants List

https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/lands_forests_pdf/isprohibitedplants2.pdf 

 

Upper Susquehanna Coalition Trees for Tributaries Program

https://www.uppersusquehanna.org/usc/usc-teams/buffer-team/trees-for-tributaries/

 

National Audubon Society – Preventing Window Collisions

https://www.audubon.org/news/reducing-collisions-glass

 

National Audubon Society – Plants for Birds Program (Native Plants Database)

https://www.audubon.org/plantsforbirds

 

The Fernery, Hartwick, NY – Connie Tedesco
Native Plants for the Leatherstocking Region

https://theferneryatwhitehouse.com/

 

Tompkins County Environmental Management Council – Invasive Plants List

https://tompkinscountyny.gov/files2/emc/docs/FINAL%20EMC%20Invasive%20Plants%20Resource%20Document%202018v1.pdf 

 

New York Flora Atlas

https://newyork.plantatlas.usf.edu/

 

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