Webinar Recording: Invasive Plants as Agents of Change or Symptoms of Other Stressors

Invasive plants are often a major concern for land stewards across the Hudson Valley—but is our approach to invasive plant management missing the bigger picture? In this session, Dr. Bernd Blossey, Director of Cornell University’s Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants Program, presents groundbreaking research on ecosystem impacts of many of our most feared invasives, the unintended consequences of our most common management protocols, and the research avenues that remain underexplored.

We cover the underlying and often unseen ecological stressors driving many plant invasions, including white-tailed deer overabundance; and discuss practical tools for land management at a variety of scales. PCA’s Avalon Bunge moderates. 

This year, our Morning Coffee Series centers on the theme of restoring connection and invites participants to explore our region through talks that touch on the ecology of the land, the beings who inhabit it, our human place in it, and what its future may hold. We hope you will join us for these eight sessions–always free and virtual–and deepen your connection to this place.