Network News

Network News is our quarterly newsletter. Click below to view, read, download and print issues of the Network News, from 2002 to present.

Become a member of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and receive four issues each year.

2020

Issue 4

Environmental Protection Going Forward, We Zoomed Our Fall  ’20 Conference,  The Network’s 2021 Strategic Plan, The James C, White Memorial Prize, Protecting Water Quality in a Changing Climate 

Issue 3

Fall 2020, COVID-19 and Water–A Preliminary Report, Hilary Lambert Receives Lake Steward Award, Becoming a Lake Friendly Living Champion, Available for Your Viewing Pleasure on our YouTube Channel, Celebrating 10 Years of Wetland Management at the Seneca Meadows Wetlands Preserve, Cayuga Lake Hydrilla Update, HABs Harrier Volunteers Watch over the Lake as Blooms Continue to Occur in 2020, Upcoming Events

Issue 2

Summer 2020, A Multi-Decade Perspective on Fall Creek, Our 2020 HABs Communication Intern, CLWN Annual Appeal, Cayuga Lake 2020 Hydrilla Update, Does Your Lake Have Starry Stonewort?, Paddle4Change Trash2Art, The Network’s New Spring and Summer Lakewear!

Issue 1

 Welcome to Our Website! — A Brief Guide to www.cayugalake.org, Lake Friendly Living, The Newtwork’s New Spring and Summer Lakewear, Water Huggers Alert! — Embrace the Lake with Creek, Lakeshore, and Ditch Cleanups, New York Natives: Eastern Hemlock Threatened by Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, Help Us Monitor Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) on Cayuga Lake in 2020

2019

Issue 4

Hydrilla Resurfaces Around Lake’s Southern End in 2019, Cayuga Lake 2019 Harmful Algal Blooms Season, Update on CLEAN (Cayuga Lake Environmental Action Now), Climate Coping Book Discussion, Four Seneca County Farms Slated for Erosion and Sediment Control Projects, Membership Renewal for 2020, The Dave Morehouse Award, 2019 Fall Community Conference – Bill Ebert 2019 Morehouse Awardee, Upcoming Events.

Issue 3

On the Lake and Across the Watershed – Busy Spring & Summer for Conservation and Science, Annual Meeting & Picnic Report, Cover Crops = Cleaner Water, Healthier Soils, It’s the Law! Fertilize With Care!, Introducing Tompkins County ScienceHub, 2019 Appeal/Membership Form, Upcoming Events.

Issue 2

Harmful Algal Blooms 2019 Monitoring & Reporting, 2019 Appeal Underway!, Remembering Jim White the Network’s Founding Chair (article, poem, obituary), Hydrilla 2019 It’s in the Lake – Please Help Watch for It, Welcome to Intern Jessica Biggott, Upcoming Events, Seneca County Twilight Farm Tours.

Issue 1

CLWN’s New Water Quality Committee (WQC), Updated Website, It’s Your Turn – Volunteer Recruitment & Membership Renewal, HABs Harriers – First Call for 2019 Volunteers, Out of the Vaults of Deep Time (kind of) – Our First Newsletter Issues 2000-2002, Funding for Septic System Replacement Info, Upcoming Events, CLWN’s James White Dies at 101.

2018

Issue 4

Celbrating Cayuga Lake Through the Art of Quilting, Mel Russo’s Living Legacy-Milkweed and Monarchs, Lead in Salmon Creek, Water Chestnut Monitoring and Removal in the City of Ithaca Drinking Water Reservoir, Hydrilla and Harmful Algal Bloom Update, The Bigger Picture: Cayuga Lake in the Great Lakes Basin

Issue 3

Habs Science and Public Opinion; Watercraft Steward reflections; Members picnic and annual meeting; Appeal and volunteerism

Issue 2

Romulus Incinerator, Embrace the Lake Cleanups, Where the Water Goes ( Sue Smith-Heavenrich), Hydrilla Update, HABs, Annual Appeal

Issue 1

Elected Leaders and Public Agencies Contact Information, What’s YOUR Stake in the Lake?, Water Chestnut Looms in Sixmile Creek Reservoir

2017

Issue 4

Cargill; Tales from the Littoral Zone: The Cayuga-Seneca Canal; Floating Classroom brings The Teall to Cayuga; Finger Lakes Institute volunteer pilot program

Issue 3

Hydrilla outreach; Tales from the Littoral Zone: Fall Migration; HABs, Members picnic and annual meeting; Make your own weed rake

Issue 2

Feeling overwhelmed by the state of things? Read this; Tales from the Littoral Zone: Seiches on Cayuga and Seneca; Seneca Meadows water quality sampling; Emerald Ash Borer extended quarantine; Sustainable lawn care practices

Issue 1

RPP nears completion; Tales from the Littoral Zone: Winter’s Wonderful Wrath; Cover crops; Interview with Dave Bouldin-Cornell, retired; Public information meetings TMDL; May Embrace the Lake Cleanups

2016

Issue 2

Mel Russo: The Magic of Water; Maggie Passmore: Nutrient Cycling and Spiraling In Tributary Streams; Marie McRae; Dryden pipeline; David Borden – Ithaca’s Composer in Residence

Issue 1

Our watershed business community; Tales from the Littoral Zone: The Longnose Gar; Interview with Pete and Tacie Saltonstall-owners King Ferry Winery

2015

Issue 4

Celebrating and thanking those who care for our watershed; Tales from the Littoral Zone: Finger Lakes Whitefishes

Issue 3

Public input needed for RPP; What is an algal bloom?; Responsible sport fishing; Can You Canoe Cayuga success; Members picnic and annual meeting

Issue 2

Tales from the Littoral Zone: Origins of Fish Species in Cayuga/Seneca Lakes; Smart steps for clean water: Stream habitat and importance of woody debris; Jeff Stein: “Adjacent to Fall Creek, in Dryden Cayuga Lake Watchdog Group Concerned Over Farm’s Planned Manure Pit

Issue 1

Attention All Waterhed Municipalities!-Cayuga Lake’s Watershed Plan to be Updated, Emerging Pollutants: Microbeads, Native Invasion, Comments to DED Requesting Public Hearing for Lansing’s Power Plant, New Study to Map Wetlands Across Tompkins County

2014

Issue 3-4

Can You Canoe Cayuga?, Annual/August Meeting & Picnic-Changes in Leadership & Bylaws, Hydrilla Season Ebbs, Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Monitors Needed for Jan/Feb!, Local Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla Joins Other Volunteer Agencies to Fight Invasive Species, Cayuga Lake Study Discussed in Cayuga County

Issue 2

Register for CYCC; Fracking ban upheld; Wetlands mapping from the air; Clean boating; Hydrilla Hunter Happenings July/August

Issue 1

NYS Fracking update; Hemlock Wooly Adelgid on Six Mile Creek; Smart Steps for household chemicals; Bell Station public access event; Seeking Hydrilla Hunters

2013

Issue 3-4

Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience-Six Mile Creek and the Restful Mind, Smart Steps for Clean Water: Household Energy Use; Good Food, Good Music, Good Wine, Good Cause-Sunset Dinner on Cayuga 2013, A Challenging And Wonderful Event-Yes We Can Canoe Cayuga!, The Town of Enfield Launches Aquifer Study, Breakfast Around the Lake Kick-off in Seneca Falls, Year-End Hydrilla Hunter Recognition & Report

Issue 1-2

Stewardship needed for both the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay; New website launched thanks to the Park Foundation; Network News writing assistance needed; Embrace the Lake cleanups a success; Cornell University’s lake source cooling & Cayuga Lake modeling projects; Comments submitted to the Public Service Commission regarding Cayuga-AES; Hydrilla update; Wells College photo contest; Sunset on Cayuga dinner

2012

Issue 4

Seneca Falls and Ithaca public thanked; Hydrilla update; Retiring US Representative Hinchey statement; “I survived Can You Canoe Cayuga!

Issue 3

Finger Lakes Water Steward intern recap; Hydrilla discovered in Erie Canal/North Tonawanda; Can You Canoe Cayuga

Issue 2

Quick fixes and the sustainable long haul: hemlock wooly adelgid, Hydrilla, and our watershed; Thank you to the Helen Thomas Howard Foundation for Hydrilla public education support, CLWN board approves position statement on hydraulic fracking, When dreams collide: waste transfer station proposed in Enfield Creek headwaters

Issue 1

SDEIS comments submitted to DEC January 2012, Attention Hydrilla hunters, It’s not just in Tompkins County: drilling bans and moratoria across NYS, Creeks and lakefront cleanups: Embrace the Lake!, Cayuga Lake Watershed-Major Subwatersheds, Network receives sustainability recogntion, Thank you Judy Pipher

2011

Issue 4

Toward a Sustainable Energy Future in the Finger Lakes Region, Invasive Species and Climate Change, Local Environmental Group Receives Award at Cayuga Lake Celebration

Issue 3

 Important First Steps Taken to Protect Cayuga Lake from Gas Drilling Impacts, Cayuga’s Uninvited Guests: Hydrilla and the Asian Clam, EcoCruise: Local Wines & Cheese Afloat!

Issue 2

Statement Concerning Horizontal Drilling with High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas in the Finger Lakes Region; Embrace the Lake: Cayuga Lake Gets a Big Hug! Part 1; Gas Drilling, Sustainability & Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground; Wetlands Symposium a Success; Protecting Our Water

Issue 1

 Trail Tales, Creek and Lakefront Cleanups: Embrace the Lake!, Hydraulic Fracturing & Other Water Protection News and Events

2010

Issue 4

The Finger Lakes Land Trust Comments on Expansion of Natural Gas Development in State Forests, Seasonal Gift Request to Support Specific Projects, Lurking Sources of Pollution to Cayuga Lake: The Perspective of a Life-long Resident, The Finger Lakes Regional Watershed Alliance is Formed, What Price Development? Things to Do in the Watershed

Issue 3

Water Pollution Prevention: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs), State of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network: 2009-2010, Our Neighbors to the West: Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association, Hydrofracking Update: Water Quality & Quantity Concerns

Issue 2

Farmers, Stewards of the Cayuga Lake Watershed; Footprints by the Lake; Trained Volunteers Monitor Impacts of New Gas-Drilling Technologies; Creek and Waterfront Cleanups: Embracing the Lake!; Canoga Marsh Wetlands Tour, Conference

Issue 1

Blancing Conservation and Agricultural Production Priorities: The Canoga Creek Farm Project, Marcellus Shale and Hydrofracking Update, Creek Cleanups Around the Lake

2009

Issue 3

DEC’s Unconventional Gas Drilling dSGEIS, Year-End Report from the Chair, Finger Lakes & Watershed Friends, “Sunset on Cayuga” a Success!!, Phosphorus Inputs into Cayuga Lake

Issue 2

A New Study of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Inputs to Cayuga Lake, Network Staff Gains Momentum from National Environmental Conference, The Network’s New Steward Hilary Lambert, Marcellus Shale Drilling and Blasting, A Few Things You Can Do This Month to Help Cayuga Lake Stay Healthy!, Hemlock Pest Hits the Watershed, Weeds and Aquatic Plants: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Issue 1

The Role of Phosphorus in Cayuga Lake, Interpreting the Health of Our Lake: A Report Card, Do We Have the Right Mission?, Permission to Pollute?, A Brief Geologic History of the Finger Lakes, Monitoring Our Watershed, Long Point State Park

2008

Issue 4

Exploring Northwest Cayuga Lake, What Do We Learn from Computer Models?, The Finger Lakes Land Trust Receives the 2008 David Morehouse Award, Puzzling Problems with Phosphorus, Investments to Upgrade Wastewater Systems Worthwhile, Lake Friendly Farm Recipients of 2008, Amphibians Part 3: The Conservation Response, Departure of Watershed Steward

Issue 3

Twin Parks Offer Two Styles of Lake Access, Beginnings are Also Endings, Cruise Cayuga on the Floating Classroom, From Sight Seeing to Wine Drinking: A Glance at Historic Tourist Attractions Around Cayuga Lake, Tompkins County Water Resources Council and Cornell University Take a Strategic Approach to Cayuga Lake Stewardship, Cutting Helps Control Weeds, New Environmental Education Center Opens, Amphibians: An Extinction Crisis

Issue 2

Watershed Network Movement and Growth, Challenge your Taste Buds!, At Work in the Watershed, Taughannock Falls State Park: A Popular Stop Along the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway, Milling Around the Finger Lakes, Amphibians: Who They Are and Why They Are Important, Tour the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway

Issue 1

Stormwater Runoff: Problems and Solutions, You Won an Award!, Keeping Water Disease Free, Welcome New Board Members!, Water Conservation Starts at Home, Landscape for a Healthier Lake and You Could Win $500, Environmental Quality Program Reaches Out to Small Farms, The Swampy Past of Stewart Park

2007

Issue 4

Less Phosphorus Entering Cayuga Lake, At Work in the Watershed, Morehead Award Goes to Desch, Sharing the Planet with Birds, 10th Anniversary Lakefest Surpasses All Expectations, Honoring Janet Hawkes, Members Support Clean Water, The Longest Bridge in the World

Issue 3

Solving Weed Problems Takes a Watershed, Wild Activities Lead Kids to Environmental Stewardship, At Work in the Watershed, Dreding of Waterways in the City of Ithaca, Lake Foam Unpleasant but Often Harmless, Sustaining Our Precious Water Resources: What Can an Individual Do?, Fish Virus Spreads to Nearby Skaneateles

Issue 2

Trees at Work, Floods are an Act of Nature: True or False?, Four Years of Success Managing Stormwater Oniste at the Sciencenter, Coping with Flooded Septic Systems, Seeking the Source: How Much Pollution Comes to the Lake Via the Tributaries, Roadside Ditches Link the Land to Streams

Issue 1

American Landscape at Its Best: the Cayuga Lake Watershed, Sustaining Our Precious Water Resources: 2007 Essay Contest Topic, Oil and Sewarage and Trash Oh My!, Arctic Snow Geese Visit, Groundwater, How Does Water Circulate?

2006

Issue 4

Bugs Benefit from Fall Leaves, At Work in the Watershed, Cayugan Trout and Salmon, Pipher Honored for Dedication and Leadership, Virus Not Guilty for Summer Fish Kills, Rain Gardens: A Smart Step to Clean Water, Meet the Board

Issue 3

Canoga Marsh Restoration, A Healthy Watershed Means Healthy People, The Wonders of Wetlands, Fall Creek Natural Trout Population, Lake-Friendly Farms Recognized, Watershed-Protective Fertilizer Good for Lawns, Barriers Block Water Weeds, Spiny Water Fleas Mar Fishing Experience, Deadly Fish Virus Found in Upstate New York

Issue 1-2

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2005

Issue 3

What Members Think, Ancient Seas Still Mined: The Salt Fields of the Cayuga Lake Watershed and How They Have Been Developed, Lake Friendly Farms, The Network at Work, A Lake at Risk, Johnston Receives Morehouse Award

Issue 2

Issue 1

2004

Issue 4

Lake Pivotal to Seneca County’s 200 Year History, History and Lake Entwined, Historic Homes a Treasure, Stormwater Solutions Benefit Fish, Intermunicipal Organization Update, The Land Between the Lakes, Central New York Plays Role in the Birth of Modern Geology, What the Cayuga Lake Watershed Means to Me, Too Much of a Good Thing, Neighbors Around Cayuga Lake Conference

Issue 3

Be On the Look Out for Invaders, The Cayuga Lake Watershed is Definitely A Great Place to Be!, The Watershed, Farms Keep the Watershed Green, Wood is Good in Streams, Another Invader to Watch for: Pale Swallow-Wort

Issue 2

Boaters Face New Rules on South End of the Lake, Watershed-Many Interests, The Network at Work, Cayuga Lake “Couldn’t Be Nicer,” Looking for Data on the Cayuga Lake Watershed?, Network Welcomes New Educator, Members Keep Network Strong, The Fox River in Northern Illinois

Issue 1

Lake Levels: A Grand Balancing Act, Our Place Along the Canal, The Network at Work, DEC Reports Lake Activities, Plans to Curtail Clean Water Act Abandoned, The Science of Volunteer Monitoring, Small But Mighty Willows, Seneca Falls: Waterlink to the World

2003

Issue 4

Watershed!, Bidding Farewell to Stalwart Guy, From Rare Plants to River Otters: A Few of the Finds at the Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve, One More Winner from Our 2003 Essay Contest!, Paddling the Watershed, 2003 Lakefest Makes a Big Splash!, Watershed Monitoring the Subject of Discussion, Hurbut and Patterson Farms Honored for Their Stewardship

Issue 3

All Aboard!-Floating Classroom Cruises Cayuga LakeAll a Matter of Perspective, Collaboration Brings New Experiences, A Healthy Watershed?-It Depends on Your view, Keeping Family Traditions Alive, Water Week 2003-It’s All About Good Taste!, Winners Chosen for 3rd Annual Essay Contest

Issue 2

Earth Day Lasts All Year for Fall Creek Volunteers, We Each Make a Difference, Our Volunteers Make the Difference!, Wash Me!, Leaders Work to Define Network Focus, Stewardship Begins At Home-In the Yard, Sport Fishing on Cayuga Lake, David Morehouse Award Established

Issue 1

2003-A New Year Full of Promise for the Cayuga Lake Watershed!, Steward’s New Year Message, A Frozen Tradition, Why Focus on Sediment?, Six Mile Creek Sediment Projects Gearing Up, Finge Lakes Institute Funded, Stormwater Demonstration at the Sciencenter, Seneca County Tackles Erosion Sources, Expansion of Seneca Meadows Landfill Denied

2002

Issue 4

Fine Wine-Courtesy of the Lake, Another Lakefest Success, New Stormwater Pollution Controls Are On the Way, Why the Lake Turns Wintry Gray, Who..Is Banging Those Drums?, Intermunicipal Organization Receives Funding, Regional Environthon Teams Look to Continue Success in 2003, Elizabeth W. Thorndike Receives Leadership Award

Issue 3

Honoring David Morehouse, New Watershed Educator Comes on Board, Case Studies and How You Can Help, Protect Our Watershed, Protect Our Cayuga Lake Watershed, Is Cayuga Lake an “Impaired Waterbody”?, Economic Development and the Cayuga Lake Watershed: A Perspective from Tompkins County Area Development, Community-wide Stream Cleanup a Huge Success!, Small But Mighty Willows, Water Quality Study of the Finger Lakes

Issue 2

Water Chestnuts Ready for Invasion, Manure: Waste Turned to Benefit, Members Keep Network Strong, Medical Waste Management at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, Lake Monitoring Program Begins This Summer: Volunteers Needed

Issue 1

Municipal Officials Respond to Water Resources Issues, Update on Groundwater Contamination, Hungry Cows Help Protect Water Quality, Lake Levels Rise and Fall with Reason, Follow-Up on Gas Drilling, Agricultural Economics in the Watershed, Members Make it Possible