Hi, friends
I have updated my short video promoting my award-winning book, A Walk through Watkins Glen–Water’s Sculpture in Stone. I have used, almost entirely, photos directly from the book. I made my first book delivery for the season to shops at the park and in the village of Watkins Glen on April 30, and we are hoping for a successful season. Check out the new video below. Once running, it has the option on the bar below it to up the resolution. You can also go full-screen.
Also, please see my informaton below about the Nature Photography Workshop, and about the serious threat to Watkins Glen State Park’s beautiful forests.
Last year, A Walk through Watkins Glen won a first place prize in the media awards competition of the National Association for Interpretation, the premier professional association for park naturalists and educators. For more information about this book and our other book, Ithaca–the City, Gorges, and Colleges, see http://owlgorge.com (Owl Gorge Productions).
There is still room in the Nature Photography Workshop at the state park that I will be assisting with on May 22. Click here for information.
The white blobs are hemlock woolly adelgid insects feeding on hemlock needles. Photo by Mark Whitmore.
On a very disturbing note, it has been determined that the eastern hemlock forest that is so much of the beauty and ecology of this magical gorge is seriously infested with the hemlock woolly adelgid insect pest that has killed hemlock forests in much of the eastern U.S. We are hoping that New York State Parks will take agressive action to halt this infestation while longer-term biological controls are researched and hopefully developed. At present, this beautiful forest is in grave danger. See my posting about this subject on the Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park website.
Let’s continue to love, care for, and defend this beautiful, troubled world,
Tony Ingraham
