What's a Botanist to Do?: from the whole class

Fun Facts About The Places We'll Visit

The marshes of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex are a registered national landmark. Each year, more than 1 million waterfowl pass through the complex! The plants of Montezuma nourish waterfowl, shorebirds and songbirds. The wetlands ecosystem provides a resting and feeding area for these birds during their migration.
Since World War II, the Cornell Agriculture Experiment Station has been the center for research in New York on the production, protection, and utilization of fruit and vegetable crops, an industry that is today valued in excess of $2 billion.
Taughannock Falls State Park is characterized by its nearly vertical exposures of shale bedrock. This unique geology supports three state-threatened wildflowers: butterwort, birds-eye primrose and yellow-mountain saxifrage.
The Hobart and William Smith Colleges Campus is home to more than 1500 trees, some of which are older than the Colleges themselves. There is a red oak more than 200 years old, a 150 year old Austrian pine and many beech trees that are more than 100 years old.