Syracuse.com - Special wetlands project planned as a tribute to SUNY ESF professor

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The project recognizes the work of the late Guy Baldassarre, a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry for 25 years. He specialized in ornithology and wildlife management.

Guy Baldassarre Dick Blume/The Post-Standard The following is a press release from SUNY ESF:

SYRACUSE, NY – A special wetland restoration project is being planned as a lasting tribute to the late Guy Baldassarre, a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry for 25 years, where he specialized in ornithology and wildlife management.

The project will protect and restore habitat for wildlife and marsh birds, and

provide excellent opportunities for pubic enjoyment of wildlife at a site within the

50,000-acre Montezuma Wetlands Complex located near Seneca Falls, NY. It was a

favorite place for Baldassarre and his students to visit.

Baldassarre was an internationally respected waterfowl biologist, wetland ecologist and researcher. He authored “Waterfowl Ecology and Management” the premier text book on this topic and a forthcoming edition of “Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America.”

He received the Wetlands Conservation Achievement Award from Ducks Unlimited.

To help sponsor this project, contributions in Baldassarre’s name can be sent to:

Friends of Montezuma Wetlands Complex

c/o Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

3395 US Route 20

Seneca Falls, N.Y. 13148

Or, visit the Friends’ website .

View the full article on The Syracuse Outdoors Blog