2nd Annual Arbor Day Webinar Conference hosted by Rice Creek For the sec ond year in a row, members of the campus community and general public are i nvited to celebrate National Arbor Day with the Canal Forest Restoration Pr oject (CFRP) team at Rice Creek Field Station via a free online webinar con ference over Zoom. The conference lineup includes six 45-minute webinars of fered between 9 am and 4 pm on Friday, April 30. Speakers hailing from as c lose as the SUNY Oswego campus and as far away as the Chicago Botanic Garde n will highlight different projects and perspectives on forests, trees, and the environment, from history to art, grass-roots reforestation to fosteri ng connections between people and plants, and two perspectives on maple sug aring. Several SUNY Oswego undergrads and staff members will be participati ng as speakers. Interested participants can sign up for one or more webinar s online at bit.ly/OzArborDay. Recordings will be posted to the CFRP projec t’s YouTube channel the following week for those unable to join the live ev ent. Students who attend will be eligible to receive a free tree to take ho me at the end of the semester! Conference Schedule: 9 am: A year in review: Canal Forest Restoration Project 2020, by Piper Warren, Kristen Haynes, an d Steven Frost. Despite the challenges of 2020, the CFRP team, including Ri ce Creek Field Station staff, SUNY Oswego students, and project partners, h ad a successful season growing, planting, and giving away trees. Join us to hear stats from 2020, see our new educational materials, and get updated o n our infrastructure improvements, volunteer contributions, and donations. We will also discuss our progress and tree giveaway plans for the 2021 seas on. 10 am: Book Talk on Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton. Award-winning local author Richard Horan went on a quest to lo cate still-living trees that influenced American authors of the past, colle ct seeds, and grow them to start a new generation from these illustrious mo ther trees. In this talk, Horan describes his ambitious project, which serv ed as the basis for his book Seeds, as well as the people who helped make t he project and book possible. 11 am: Maple Syrup: Forest Foods for a Sustai nable Future, by Aaron Wightman from the Cornell Maple Program. Maple syrup isn't just a delicious treat. When you choose real maple syrup over other sweeteners, you also support a form of sustainable food production known as agroforestry. Popular sugar crops such as beets, sugar cane, and corn all have negative environmental impacts including habitat fragmentation and pol luted waterways. In contrast, maple syrup is produced from intact forest ec osystems that retain all their value for wildlife habitat, carbon sequestra tion, and water filtration. This presentation will discuss the rapid growth of the maple products industry and the role of agroforestry in a sustainab le future. 12 pm: Made In Oswego: From Tree Tap to Table, by Kate Spector, Deiarra Canty, and David Victome from the SUNY Oswego Sustainability Office . Trees are one of the most valuable resources we have available to us. The y provide fresh air for us to breathe, shade on hot summer days, and delici ous sap to help satisfy a sweet tooth. Our pilot maple tapping project was a fun and educational opportunity for us to sustainably collect tree sap fo r consumption. Our goal is for the audience to hear our story that tells al l the details of what worked, what didn’t work, what we learned as a group and any plans for future expansion. The tree tapping process that we experi enced is very DIY friendly and we hope that this project will encourage oth ers to go try it out for themselves at home. 2 pm: Interactions of Art, Eco logy, and Biology: Hybrid Matter and Sustainable Art Practices & The Pl ant Image as Method, by Darya Warner and John Santomieri from the Universit y at Buffalo. Hybrid Matter is a series of traveling site-specific temporal sculptures that address local sites, their history, and ecology. The proje ct initiates a dialogue on sustainable art practices and the collaborative possibility of art and science as executed by using an open-source 3D biopr inter, MycoPrinter. MycoPrinter prints locally sourced substrate ready for inoculation with various types of fungi to create a living sculpture. The P lant Image as Method breaks down our image-based perception of plants and t he natural environment. By surveying plant representations in media and pop ular culture, this presentation will question their significant presence in our media-based expressions, and contemplate the human/plant relationship within larger social contexts. 3 pm: Plant Love Stories, by Rebecca Barak ( Chicago Botanic Garden) and Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie (University of Main e and Colby College). Plant Love Stories is a project started by conservati on scientists that celebrates the emotional connections between people and plants. We collect and share stories about plant love from scientists, stud ents, gardeners, outdoor-enthusiasts, and self-proclaimed plant-haters. We' re excited to spread the plant love this Arbor Day and tell stories about h ow our project germinated, sprouted, and grew! About Rice Creek SUNY Oswego ’s Rice Creek Field Station is dedicated to being a living laboratory for t he advancement of knowledge through ecological research, education, and ste wardship of the natural world. In 2019, Rice Creek partnered with the Canal Forest Restoration Project to grow and distribute native trees that were h eavily logged to support New York’s canal industry, including white oak, sw amp white oak, burr oak, and white pine, restoring these trees to the regio n.
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