Tag Archives: Invasive Species

NYS Canal Corporation Rebrands it’s Canal Embankment Integrity Program

This is just in from the NYS Canal Corporation, a brand new web domain, dedicated to NYS Canal Integrity. Now this may look the same to some but the website for the Earthen Embankment Integrity Program, or EEIP, has been rebranded. You can click the link below to see. www.nyscanalintegrity.org/ And the biggest change to…
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A Round Goby

The Round Goby Who ever heard of such a thing? A round what? Well, here it is- an ugly little creature and it’s in our canal. It’s an invasive species, swilled out of the ballast tanks of ‘salty’ ships from Eurasian shores. I caught one off my dock in The Oxbow, and I thought it…
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