Experience the Lure of
Observing Plants in Wild Places
Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker
March 1, 2025 | 1:00 to 4:00 pm
URI Pharmacy Building (room 170) | Kingston RI
Driving directions, parking, how to find the building and lecture hall
Meeting is free and open to the public. REGISTER below to let us know you are coming.
Join us for refreshments and fellowship from 1:00 to 1:30, followed by short business meeting and then our guest speaker Doug McGrady. The business meeting includes electing the Board of Trustees (Nomination Slate BoT 2025-2026), voting on changes to the Bylaws (Proposed 2025 Bylaws-RIWPS for member approval).
Add your congratulations to our Volunteer Award Recipients!
Volunteer of the Year Awards: Dottie Dylag & Diana McDonnell
Lifetime Service Award: Susan Shuster
Help reseed RI. Purchase some of our ReSeedingRI seeds which come with planting instructions. More details
Guest Speaker Doug McGrady
Exploring the Flora of the American Southeast
What flora caught Doug’s keenly focused photographic eye on a trip to the American southeast last spring? Well known to us for his sense of adventure, Doug will show us what he discovered. We can ponder how it compares to what we know without having to leave EcoRegion 59.
Doug McGrady, intrepid RIWPS walk leader, explores plant communities in and around RI so closely that he identifies dozens of rare plants among the usual suspects. He records his excellent observational skills for the rest of us in stunning photographs, some of which we’ll see today. In 2016, RIWPS acknowledged his contributions to our collective botanical knowledge with a Lifetime Service Award. The RI Natural History Survey honored Doug with their Golden Eye Award in 2009. Doug also tracks rare and endangered plants as a Plant Conservation Volunteer with the Native Plant Trust.
Recommendations:
Enjoy Doug’s explorations on Flickr.
Explore Among RI Wild Flowers, RIWPS companion website dedicated to those wandering in the woods looking for plants