90th Annual Meeting & Banquet

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 5PM

The annual membership meeting and banquet of the Nature Sanctuary Society of Western New York, Inc., will be held on Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 at Tewksbury Lodge, 249 Ohio Street, Buffalo, NY 14204.

Cost is $45 per person. Advance registration and payment must be received by May 1, 2025.

The banquet will get underway with a reception and cash bar at 5:00 PM and buffet dinner at 6:00 PM. NSSWNY elections will be held and awards presented, followed by a presentation by entomologist Dr. Wayne Gall. We’ll also be holding a ticket raffle and plant sale to benefit the Land Acquisition Fund of the Society.

***** To donate items to the auction, contact Raffle Chair Necole Zayatz: necolette@gmail.com

The Tewksbury Lodge (reviewed here: A Visit to The Tewks-bury Lodge - Buffalo Rising) is located at 249 Ohio Street, Buffalo, New York, 14204. A cash bar will be open from 5:00 to 6:00 PM. A buffet dinner will be served at 6:00 PM, featuring vegetarian stir fry and rice; chicken marsala with mushroom sauce; shrimp scampi over angel hair pasta; herb-roasted baby red potatoes; Frenched green beans; and dinner rolls, coffee, tea, and soda. Dessert will be carrot cake. 

Gall collecting insects at Allenberg Bog last year (photo by Steven Daniel). 

The 89th event:

Dr. Wayne Gall on “Quaking Mats, Muck & Mire: Bog Walking in Western New York” 

Wayne Gall has been exploring bogs and fens in Western New York for nearly 50 years. At our banquet, he will discuss the dif-ferences between bogs and fens, explain how these peatlands form, and describe repre-sentatives of the fasci-nating flora and fauna of these rare and little-known habitats. Join him on an arm-chair tour of Allenberg Bog, Bergen Swamp, and two prop-erties owned by NSSWNY—Houghton Bog and Furman Fen.