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On Thursday Mar. 20th at 7:00 pm The Beacon Sloop Club’s 2024 Lecture Series Presents, Searching for New York’s Rare Fireflies w/ Katie Hietala-Henschell and Matt Schlesinger.
Fireflies are iconic insects that have undergone notable declines from light pollution, habitat loss, and pesticides. Little is known currently about the status and distribution of many of New York’s fireflies. In 2022, the New York Natural Heritage Program (NYNHP) and State Parks began a multi-year survey effort to identify rare and at-risk species in parks throughout the state. NYNHP’s Katie Hietala-Henschell and Matt Schlesinger will present some preliminary findings from this effort, which will help direct management activities to best maintain firefly populations and will inform statewide firefly conservation.
Katie joined NYNHP in 2021 as a Zoologist, primarily conducting rare animal surveys on State Lands and in State Parks. She is leading the Dark Skies for Fireflies project to survey rare fireflies in New York State Parks. Katie also assisted with Bumble Bee species identification and specimen processing for the Empire State Native Pollinator Survey (ESNPS). Through various projects her survey work contributes to our understanding New York’s biodiversity. Katie has a B.S. in Applied Ecology and her M.S. in Forest Ecology and Management from Michigan Technological University.
Matt Schlesinger is NYNHP’s Chief Zoologist, overseeing wildlife conservation and inventory projects ranging from beetles to birds to baleen whales. Matt has a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis, a Master's in Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Free, Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr., Beacon, NY. For more information: www.beaconsloopclub.org (845) 463-4660, (914) 879-1082
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Beacon Sloop Club, 55 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon, NY 12508, United States,Beacon, New York
