The Miller Cottage garden, shown July 9, 2019 after the completion of new plantings, was resotored according to the original Ellen Shipman plan. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR The story of the gardens at the Miller Edison
Doug Conroe, Executive Director of the Chautauqua Lake Association, pulls up the sonde used to collect multiple types of data from Chautauqua Lake during the biweekly lake test on Sunday, Aug 18, 2019. ALEXANDER WADLEY/STAFF
Leopold Don Leopold, a professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has uploaded 135 videos about trees to the internet. In each two- to three-minute video, Leopold describes the different characteristics of
Roush As the world’s population increases and climate change disrupts the hydrologic cycle, water scarcity is becoming more and more of a concern. Unfortunately, according to Richard Roush, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences
Watercraft Steward Lauren Sharp removes eelgrass from a motorboat that recently emerged from Chautauqua Lake while also checking for aquatic invasive species Monday Aug. 12, 2019 at the Bemus Point boat launch. SARAH YENESEL/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 Members of the Bird Tree and Garden Club continue the tradition of donating books to the Smith Memorial Library. This year the club has donated books about trees. VISHAKHA GUPTA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
This morning, environmental activist and author Bill McKibben will be on the Amphitheater stage. One week ago, he spent a few hours in jail. McKibben was participating in a peaceful protest against the immigrant detention
Threaded through Chautauqua Institution’s 750 acres of land is an abundance of gardens — while diverse in size, flora and theme, they all contribute to the beauty of the grounds. Chautauqua Institution’s Supervisor of Gardens
Jack Gulvin walked up to a staghorn sumac shrub on Massey Avenue and took a bite out of the berries growing in a cluster shaped like a red, pointy pine cone. “No flavor,” Gulvin said.
When Nellie Gardner looks at nature, she perceives it in all of its complexity. She remembers species’ evolutions. She thinks about how each plant interacts with their environments, and she imagines the potential for certain
In the little white and red chapel near Thunder Bridge, time reversed to 1894 — for about an hour last Sunday. It was one of those peaceful, gray and drizzly mornings. Parishioners filed into
With a purple martin chick in one hand and a pair of specialized pliers in the other, Twan Leenders carefully closed a metal ring around the bird’s leg, so that it was on securely,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-rYoylvIs&feature=youtu.be As Courtney Wigdahl-Perry controlled the motor on a small inflatable Zodiac on July 22, MaryAnn Mason sat on the edge of the boat and leaned down to read the screen on the depth-finder,
A taste of Americana music will come to Chautauqua this weekend. Ken Hardley will host a taping of his Rolling Hills Radio show at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, August 4 in the Amphitheater, with guests
Fountain Ahead of the 1919 World Series, the Chicago White Sox were heavily favored to beat the Cincinnati Reds. The Sox had a powerhouse team that included star outfielder Joe Jackson. Despite their seeming advantage,
Mike McGrath Mike McGrath has spent the last 40 years writing and speaking about gardening. But, he never intended to get into gardening in the first place. When he was a young man at a