News

A new and exciting learning opportunity to get you outside this spring: The Natural Areas Academy

Sarah — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:40:51 -0500

Do you love spending time in the forests, meadows and other natural areas in the Finger Lakes? Do you care about preserving the integrity of the natural world and want to share this love with others? If so, consider joining a new educational program at Cornell Plantations: The Natural Areas Academy.

Cascadilla Gorge Trail Repairs Have Begun

Sarah — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:46:25 -0500

Efforts are now underway to repair and eventually reopen the Cascadilla Gorge Trail, one of Ithaca’s and Cornell’s most cherished landscapes. Cascadilla Gorge has been closed for the past year due to unsafe conditions. Through funding provided by Cornell University, work has begun to replace hand rails, restore stairs, install fencing, and other identified safety hazards.

Learn More about Sustainable Landscapes at the 2nd Annual Native Plant Symposium

Sarah — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:52:46 -0500

Whether you are a homeowner, landscape designer, land manager, or horticulturalist, the 2nd Annual Designing with Native Plants Symposium will inspire the use of native plants to create more sustainable landscapes. There will be eleven talks over two days covering topics such as planting a green roof, plants for stormwater drainage, and impacts of climate change on native ecosystems.

Plantations’ Welcome Center is Growing!

plantations — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:56:06 -0500

In August, Cornell Plantations began construction on its new Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center. Over the last 7 months we have been posting updates and photos of our progress here. We invite you to visit online to see how the building is coming along and, if you’re in the area, stop by to see the work first-hand!

Now is the time to visit the Mullestein Winter Garden

Sarah — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:40:06 -0500

This time of year, we are used to our natural surroundings becoming a bit more muted, but that's not true in the Mullestein Winter Garden - winter has the opposite effect!

Step into this garden to find:

bright orange and red fruits of many cultivars of winterberry,

Natural Areas participating in study to try and save hemlocks

plantations — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:31:47 -0500

Cornell Plantations continues working towards the control of hemlock woolly adelgids by providing the use of our Natural Areas for research into more effective control. In October, 2009, researchers Mark Whitmore from Cornell University and Dave Mausel from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst introduced a biocontrol agent as part of a 10 year study sponsored by the US Forest Service. Three hundred individuals of Laricobius nigrinus, a predatory beetle native to the northwestern unite

Cornell Plantations breaks ground on its welcome center

plantations — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:15:12 -0400

By Krishna Ramanujan
Originally published by the Cornell Chronicle.

At the back of a construction zone with backhoes and piles of dirt surrounded by a chain-link fence, a gray wall is built into Comstock Knoll. Next year, the site will house Cornell Plantations' new sustainably designed welcome center.

Robert Barker/University Photography

Cascadilla Gorge Trail CLOSED due to hazardous conditions

plantations — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:21:48 -0400

September 18, 2009 - Emergency repairs will be commencing this week to replace damaged and hazardous infrastructure above the Cascadilla Gorge Trail. The public is reminded that the trail remains closed between Linn Street and College Avenue due to extreme safety hazards from ongoing construction work, overhead rock and debris, and unsafe trail conditions. We urge you to stay out of the gorge until the trail is reopened. Please don't jeopardize your own safety or the safety of others.

Sod sofa created at Cornell Plantations

plantations — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:54:17 -0400

On Tuesday, September 8, Cornell students in Marcia Eames-Sheavly's "Art of Horticulture" class (HORT 2010) constructed a sod sofa in the F.R.

Fall Lecture Series kicks off Wednesday, September 2!

plantations — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:19:20 -0400

Cornell Plantations kicks off it's annual Fall Lecture series next Wednesday evening, September 2, with renowned Cornell English professor, Daniel Schwarz. Professor Schwarz will be giving the Harder lecture on Reconfiguring Nature after Darwin: Skepticism and Sexuality in High Modernist Literature. The lecture will begin at 5:30 in Warren Hall Auditorium and will be followed by Plantations' annual garden party.