ReSeeding RI: Replenishing Rhode Island’s Native Plants
On February 25, 2025 Dave Vissoe, Vice President of RIWPS and URI Master Gardener, delivered an online presentation about ReSeeding RI, describing its journey to date. Watch the presentation!
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On February 25, 2025 Dave Vissoe, Vice President of RIWPS and URI Master Gardener, delivered an online presentation about ReSeeding RI, describing its journey to date. Watch the presentation!
Transforming The Landscape: Audubon Native Plants and Pollinators Symposium focuses on how to become part of a sustainable community and support our native species by creating beautiful pollinator habitat at home. The keynote speaker Dr. Doug Tallamy, Professor and Chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware is well known for his lauded books on landscaping for wildlife. The seven other speakers include Shannon Kingsley, the biologist of our ReSeeding RI initiate, which aims to increase the availability of seeds and plants from locally sourced wild native “ecotypic” plant populations. The other speakers are Dr. Steven Alm, Professor of Entomology, and the URI Bee Lab; Lee Ann Freitas, Director, Roger Williams Park Botanical Center; Sally Johnson, Ecoastal Design; Donna Merrill, Founder and President of Pollinator Pathway; Jen West, Coastal Training Program Coordinator, Narragansett Bay Research Reserve and Phoenix Wheeler, Audubon Director of Advocacy. The symposium will take place on April 20, 2024, from 9am to 4pm, at Rhode Island College in Providence.
Francis Underwood was a kind, gentle man with a lively sense of humor and an insatiable curiosity about the natural world.
We begin to deliver our plugs to our organic farm and land trust partners.
We are thrilled to announce a new digital gathering place, for our valued society members. We’re bringing the conversation to your fingertips with our brand new Facebook Group: Rhode Island Wild Plant Society Members Hub.
A giant thank you to the Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market for hosting us on Saturday, August 26, 2013 for our most successful fall sale yet!
We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family and friends of Hugh Willoughby who died on April 10, 2023. Hugh was a loyal supporter of RIWPS since its founding in 1987. A font of knowledge about the natural world, he never missed an opportunity to encourage and praise efforts to learn about, and preserve it. He was an acknowledged contributor to A Guide to Rhode Island’s Natural Places. He advocated for educational programs, and enjoyed traversing the the state observing and noting populations of native plants. To the challenge of mastering Latin names of plants, Hugh wrote a wonderful piece explaining how to pronounce them. Hugh was also involved with of a number of other environmental organizations both local and national. He was recognized as a Rhode Island Distinguished Naturalist by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey, Outstanding Naturalist by the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, and received the Claudia Wilds Award of the American Birding Association for his long and distinguished service to that organization.
RIWPS appreciates its volunteers! At the annual meeting on March 11, 2023 RIWPS celebrated our award recipients.
Frank Carini, ecoRI news, recently interviewed Sue Theriault, chair of ReSeeding Rhode Island Initiative and Shannon Kingsley, RIWP’s botanist about this initiative. Read this article, published March 3, 2023.