FLCC ARBORETUM TOUR: Saturday, July 27, 2024, 10 AM

 FLCC ARBORETUM TOUR

Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 10 AM

DR BRUCE GILMAN: The PLANT MAN

It is a well-known fact that our beloved Plant Man’s favorite tree is the Tulip tree which stands tall, slender and handsome.  On Saturday, July 27, 2024 we will dedicate a plaque near the tulip tree at the FLCC Arboretum to honor Dr. Bruce Gilman for his immeasurable contributions, expertise, and commitment to the Canandaigua Botanical Society since 1976.

In celebration of our

Sesquicentennial, 1874-2024

The Canandaigua Botanical Society

Honors Dr. Bruce Gilman

“The Plant Man”

Extraordinary Essential Member spanning five decades

Dr. Bruce Gilman, Professor Emeritus of Environmental

Conservation and curator of the Finger Lakes Herbarium

housed at FLCC, established the FLCC Arboretum in 1977

 Following the plaque dedication we will enjoy a tour of the FLCC Arboretum with The Plant Man.

Directions: Enter the Canandaigua campus of Finger Lakes Community College at Marvin Sands Drive off Lakeshore Drive.  Park in the large A lot to the left of Marvin Sands Drive and walk across Marvin Sands Drive to the Arboretum.   

CASEY PARK; Sunday, July 28, 2024

 CASEY PARK with Fred Haynes

Sunday, July 28, 2024 at 2 PM

6551 Knickerbocker Road, Ontario Center

We will leave the Sly Street parking lot behind the Ontario County Court House in Canandaigua by 1 PM to carpool to Casey Park together.  (Please email canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com by July 25 if you wish to carpool.)

Canandaigua Botanical Society's Newsletter: The Vasculum

 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. 

Fred would love to receive input for future issues from any member who would like to contribute either a full article, a short text item, or simply an image or two.  The success of any club newsletter is in the diversity of its content and that is best accomplished with multiple contributors.

You are encouraged to submit material to fredmhaynes55@gmail.com.

The next issue is due out in September. 

Please submit articles to Fred by August 15.

Here is a chronological listing of archived issues:

                       Winter 2024; Volume 1, Number 1          

                       Spring 2024: Volume 1, Number 2        

GANARGUA CREEK MEADOW PRESERVE: Friday, August 16

Guided Walk at Ganargua Creek Meadow Preserve

• Friday, August 16, 2024, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

• Ganargua Creek Meadow Preserve 195 North Hook Road Macedon, NY, 14502 United States 

All are welcome as we are partner with the Genesee Land Trust for a creek and meadow walk. Genesee Land Trust Preserve Manager Will Macaluso will discuss the ongoing management of this Macedon preserve as we check out the new trail bridge, identify wildflowers and watch the dragonflies and butterflies.

Please meet at the entrance at 195 N. Hook Rd. - there are parking spaces and additional room along the side of the road.

The meadow area has wide grassy trails that are mostly flat and very sunny. To get there, we’ll take the shady creek side trail that can be narrow and bumpy in places. Please prepare for the weather - especially the sun - and bring a water bottle.

There is no bathroom on site. There is a gas station and Dunkin’ Donuts about 1.2 miles away.

Your RSVP is appreciated for planning. Click here for the Genesee Land Trust link and to RSVP.

Please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com by Wednesday August 14 if you wish to carpool.  We will meet at 9:15 AM in the southeast corner of the large parking lot between Ontario and Pleasant Streets (near the railroad tracks).  The Sly Street lot will be full with weekday parking.

Tree Culture and Restoration Ecology at Deblase Open Space; Saturday, August 24, 10 AM

Burroughs Audubon Nature Club invites us along!

Saturday, August 24, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 

Tree Culture and Restoration Ecology at the Deblase Open Space

Deblase Open Space, Pittsford, New York (Sugarwood Drive Entrance)

Join BANC and the Canandaigua Botanical Society to check out a hidden piece of protected open land in Pittsford and learn about several citizen-led efforts to maintain its ability to support diverse wildlife with trees. Learn how to mimic nature to help restore New York's forests, one tree at a time. We'll cover how best to plant, grow, and protect trees for their health and ours, including lessons learned. Along the way we’ll stop to appreciate the many native wildflowers and trees that line the Irondequoit Creek and call Deblase their home. Walk and talk led by BANC members Jane McConnochie and Laurie Konte.

The walk is largely flat with some uneven footing and it will cover about .75 miles total. Park on the Sugarwood Drive cul de sac (to find it you can set your GPS to 10 Sugarbush Lane, Pittsford – the trail entrance is on the right of that house when facing it). We will meet at the trail entrance marker.

WOLF GULL; Saturday, September 7, 2024

 WOLF GULL with Dr. Bruce Gilman

Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 10 AM 

Wolf Gull near Naples, NY is a narrow valley surrounded by two steep hills, the creeks flow in two different directions from lush ponds.  It's a protective environment with a variety of plant and aquatic life.  We will meet at the mowed roadside along the Garlinghouse Road just west of the intersection with the Garlinghouse-Atlanta Road.  This is also south of the intersection with Lanning Road.  

Meet at the Sly Street parking lot behind the Ontario County Court House at 9 AM to Carpool. Please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com by 4th if you wish to carpool.  (You may try 8536 Garlinghouse Road for GPS)

Muller Field Station Paddle: Sunday, September 15, 2 -5 PM

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 and 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.

If there's too much rain on September 15th we will reschedule to September 22nd.

 

 

 

Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 10 AM: Ontario County Park

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.

FUNGI WALK with Fred Haynes; Sunday, October 27, 2024

 FUNGI WALK WITH FRED

Sunday, October 27, 2024 

Location to be determined

The Finger Lakes Herbarium tour with Dr. Bruce Gilman

 Join us on Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 10 AM when we tour the Finger Lakes Herbarium at FLCC with curator, Dr. Bruce Gilman.

 PAST EVENTS:

Ganondagan State Historic Site, Wednesday, July 24 at 10 AM

 Charles Ippolito of the Finger Lakes Environmental Field Office at Ganondagan State Historic Site will lead us through a morning of adventure at Ganaondagan!  Meet at the smaller red building at 6982 Co. Rd. 41, Victor, NY.

 Please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com if you wish to carpool.  We will meet at 9:15 AM in the southeast corner of the large parking lot between Ontario and Pleasant Streets (near the railroad tracks).  

 

 

GRIMES GLEN, Naples - Wednesday, July 17th - 10 AM

We are fortunate to have a knowledgeable team of Anthony Robarge (Ontario County Parks), Kate Riley (Finger Lakes Land Trust), and Alaina Robarge (Ontario County Soil and Water Conservation District educator), to lead us on a walk up the gorge to the first waterfall.  Footwear that you don't mind getting wet, bug repellent and a hiking pole may be appreciated. Prepare yourself to learn about more than just plants.

Grimes Glen History:
Grimes Glen is typical of many Finger Lakes gorges that still carry runoff from the uplands down into the ice-carved valleys below. In 1882, a local resident discovered a tree fossil more than 350 million years old – a Devonian era ancestor of modern club mosses similar to those found throughout the region’s forests today. The incomplete fossil may be seen at the New York State Museum in Albany.

In 2008, the Land Trust purchased 32 acres within this spectacular gorge from Naples native Don Braun. Grimes Glen had a long history of public access under Braun’s stewardship. Shortly after the purchase, FLLT transferred title to Ontario County, who manages the land as a public park, subject to a conservation easement held by FLLT.

Grimes Glen is on the south side of Naples.  Turn right off Main Street Naples onto Vine Street.  Grimes Glen will be at the end of Vine Street.

Please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com by Monday, July 15 if you wish to carpool.  We will meet at 9 AM in the southeast corner of the large parking lot between Ontario and Pleasant Streets (near the railroad tracks).  The Sly Street lot will be full with weekday parking.

Bentley Woods; Saturday, July 13, 2024 at 2 PM

 Saturday, July 13, 2024 beginning at 2 PM

BENTLEY WOODS with Dr. Bruce Gilman

 Bentley Woods is a Nature Conservancy property that Canandaigua Botanical Society has been visiting since the 1970s. This 21 acre old growth forest is landlocked by residential properties.  Bruce Gilman will lead us to Bentley Woods via a neighboring property owner. 

Directions:  Head north from Canandaigua to Route 96.  Turn south onto Main Street Fishers and travel just over 1 mile.  Turn right onto Log Cabin Road.  We will park along the road past the thruway overpass and before Benson Road to access Bentley Woods.  

This is a forest walk where a hiking pole may be appreciated.

July 14, 2024: It was a warm and sunny afternoon when 18 people met to walk through Bentley Woods with our favorite Plant Man.  The cool of the persistent old growth forest did well to keep us cooler than the 85' temperature.  Bentley Woods has no established trails.  The rolling hills and ridges make one appreciate bringing along a hiking pole or two.  Footwear that you don't mind getting wet is useful for the lower areas. 

Bruce introduced us to Bentley Woods before we got to the sign.  We walked along an old trolley trail (which is also a driveway to a private residence) straight in from the road to get to Bentley Woods.

Bentley Woods sign seen at the edge of the trolley trail

The path to the right

Bruce led us to the left

 

Christmas fern and Marginal wood fern

Bruce at the base of a white pine tree

looking up at same tree

maiden hair fern

yellow birch with raised root system

young cinnamon fern

witch hazel tree

nipplewort

herb robert

evidence of lightning strike

Lots of fungi! (and a millipede)

ghost pipe (we saw lots of these!)

two chimneys remain from the old log cabin

Jim shows Hemlock woolly adelgid

coming down from the ridge from the north to our starting point

Northern pearly eyeds

heptford pink

tiny mullein

Thanks to Karen for keeping a list of species:     Ash tree, Atricum moss, Bane berry, Beech tree, Bittersweet nightshade, Christmas fern, Cinnamon fern, Clearweed, Enchanter’s nightshade, Garlic mustard, Ghost pipes, Golden saxifrage, Hemlock, Heptford Pink, Herb Robert geranium, Hickory pignut, Interrupted fern, Jewelweed/impatiens/ touch me not, Lady fern, Liverwort, Lopseed, Maiden hair fern, Marginal wood fern, Mullein, New York fern, Nipplewort, Oak tree, Peat moss, Pennsylvania sedge, Phragmites, Poison ivy, Poison sumac, Skunk cabbage, Spice bush, Sugar maple, Turkey tail fungus, White pine, White snake root, Witch hazel, Wood fern, Yellow birch,