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Oswego county Soil & Water Conservation District and St. Lawrence Eastern Lake Ontario Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (SLELO PRISM)

Port Ontario Citizen Science Water Chestnut Pull

Event date and time
July 11, 2015 - 8:30 AM
Event description

Learn the skills to survey your favorite water body or landscape for invasive species. this 35 minute session will teach you how to identify common invasive species along with the skills to survey your favorite water body or landscape. Session begins promptly at 8:30-9:30 AM; followed by a 2 hour volunteer activity where we will canoe and or kayak the Salmon River Estuary (West end) to survey for the invasive plant Water Chestnut. Participants will "hand-pull" the plants and return them to shore.