Category Archives: Ecological Communities

BioBlitz Registration Now Open

Posted on May 16, 2013

All participants MUST pre-register and be assigned to a team. Registration (NOW OPEN): …with Friday catered dinner and Saturday continental breakfast: $20 RINHS members, $30 non-members …with no meals: $10 RINHS members, $15 non-members …latest in the famous RI BioBlitz … Continue reading →

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Marine Mammals of Rhode Island, Part 1, Historical Context

Posted on March 20, 2013

by Robert D. Kenney Some three dozen species of marine mammals are known to occur in Narragansett Bay, Block Island Sound, Rhode Island Sound, and nearby coastal and continental shelf areas. Their occurrence in the region has been reviewed in … Continue reading →

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Exec’s Blog: Nature Giveth and Nature Taketh Away

Posted on May 21, 2012

by David W. Gregg, Executive Director, RINHS My wife and I are lucky to live in a beautifully unspoiled leftover from Rhode Island’s earlier agrarian days, a small, old dairy farm. The other morning I was walking out to the … Continue reading →

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Goats on DOT Payroll?

Posted on June 1, 2009

Here’s an interesting news item from Maryland. They are experimenting with goats to mow highway verge in a wetland inhabited by bog turtles. Mowers would be tough on the little fellas, you see (the turtles, not the goats, well they’d … Continue reading →

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