Ontario Pathways Great Pumpkin Walk is happening on Saturday, October 19th from 6:30 - 9 PM.
INTRODUCING: The Vasculum!
What a way to kick off our Sesquicentennial...
Beginning in 2024 Fred Haynes offered to edit a Canandaigua Botanical Society newsletter. The Vasculum is planned to be a quarterly newsletter distributed digitally. We plan to publish it here on our weblog and members will also receive it as a pdf file via email.
You are encouraged to submit material to fredmhaynes55@gmail.com. Future submissions should be to Fred by November.
The current Summer 2024 issue is
Here is a chronological listing of archived issues:
Winter 2024; Volume 1, Number 1
Spring 2024: Volume 1, Number 2
Summer 2024: Volume 1, Number 3
FUNGI WALK WITH FRED
2 PM, Sunday, October 27, 2024
Sign up appreciated: Please send an email to fredmhaynes55@gmail.com if you plan to attend!
We will join the Victor Hiking group for this walk through Zurich Bog led by Fred Haynes.
Join us for an educational walk to look for mushrooms. Our guide Fred Haynes will lead a 2.5 mile loop walk in Zurich Bog, and show us why October is prime time for finding all types of interesting fungi. The loop walk takes a bit more than two hours, and there is a lot to see. It generally takes four hours to make the full loop, but it can also be walked part way, and then back out the same way. This location has the interesting aspect of being partially a bog and partially a fen (which has both a geology and biology component) while having a small drumlin in the middle.
Zurich Bog
3809 Arcadia Zurich Norris Rd, Lyons, NY
GPS: 43.14603, -77.04826
1:50 p.m.
Meet at the Zurich Bog trailhead (see address / GPS).
Parking
There should be plenty of parking along the west side of the road.
2:00 p.m.
Hike begins.
Notes
• This is a rain or shine event.
• Attendance is limited to 25.
Difficulty
Easy to moderate 2.5 mile walk. Boots are suggested, and be prepared for
the weather. From the Bergen Swamp Preservation Society website: "The
rugged nature of the trails makes them inaccessible to people who have
difficulty walking."
Carpooling: Meet at Sly Street parking lot behind the Ontario County Courthouse in Canandaigua at 1 PM
Join us on Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 10 AM when we tour the Finger Lakes Herbarium at FLCC with curator, Dr. Bruce Gilman.
We will meet at the main FLCC campus building in Canandaigua. There will be signs from the main entrance leading you upstairs and around to room 2640 in the Seneca wing. You may also enter from the loading dock off Laker Lane. Everyone should park in the general parking lot A.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2024
1:00 - 4:00 PM
Dr. Bruce Gilman and Fred Haynes will lead us on an early autumn walk through parts of Ontario County Park on Gannett Hill.
Ten thousand to twenty thousand years ago, during the Glacial Age, ice carved and sculptured the Finger Lakes Region. There’s no better place to slip away to than the highest point in Ontario County, Gannett Hill Park, in the scenic Bristol Hills. At an elevation of 2,256 feet above sea level, you’ll have expansive autumn views. We will meet at the parking area adjacent to the Lookout / “Jump-Off”. We'll certainly learn about the plants, but also the glacial aspects and geology of Gannett Hill.
There will be opportunities to canoe at the MULLER FIELD STATION OPEN HOUSE on Sunday, October 13, 2024
It's been ten years since our previous paddle at Muller Field Station. FLCC Instructor of Environmental Conservation,
Maura Sullivan, invites us to get a close up look at water
plants from canoes! Come dressed for the adventure to begin at 2 PM.
Canoes and life vests are available at Muller. Please let us know if you plan to join us by sending an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com (by September 10) and we'll be sure to reserve a spot for you.
Directions: head west from Canandaigua on Route 5/20. Turn left onto NY 64 south 3.7 miles to US Route 20A. Turn right onto 20A and continue 7.1 miles to County Road 36. Turn left onto CR 36 and proceed south 5.5 miles. Muller Field Station will be on your left at 6455 County Road 36.
We had 19 paddlers launching for adventure with Maura at Muller Field Station.
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| A quick lesson in paddling |
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| We headed south to avoid being stopped by recent beaver dam activity to the north |
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| Maura points out button bush with her paddle |
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| lots of royal fern |
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| Paddling professor |
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| Students afloat |
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| very small praying mantis |
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| Turtlehead |
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| All nine canoes |
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| Virginia Creeper red vines on tree |
