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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker
DESCRIPTION: Experience the Lure of \nObserving Plants in Wild Places\nAnnual Meeting & Guest Speaker\nMarch 1\, 2025 | 1:00 to 4:00 pm\nURI Pharmacy Building (room 170) | Kingston RI\nDriving directions\, parking\, how to find the building and lecture hall \n  \nMeeting is free and open to the public. REGISTER below to let us know you are coming. \nJoin 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). \nAdd your congratulations to our Volunteer Award Recipients!\n Volunteer of the Year Awards: Dottie Dylag & Diana McDonnell\nLifetime Service Award: Susan Shuster \nHelp reseed RI. Purchase some of our ReSeedingRI seeds which come with planting instructions. More details \nGuest Speaker Doug McGrady\nExploring the Flora of the American Southeast\nWhat 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. \nDoug 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. \nRecommendations: \nEnjoy Doug’s explorations on Flickr. \nExplore Among RI Wild Flowers\, RIWPS companion website dedicated to those wandering in the woods looking for plants \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://riwps.org/event/annual-meeting-guest-speaker/
LOCATION:University of Rhode Island\, Kingston\, RI
CATEGORIES:General Event,General Meeting,Programs
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SUMMARY:RIWPS Member Event: Virtual Book Discussion - Crossings
DESCRIPTION: Virtual Book Discussion (for RIWPS members only)\nBook: Crossings\n\nDiscussion date: Sunday 16 March\, 3:00 to 4:00\n\n\n\n\nWhile the days are still short and the temperatures near freezing\, let’s read and then gather around our screens to discuss Ben Goldfarb’s book Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. Goldfarb is an engaging\, prize-winning writer. His topic may seem to stray from RIWPS’ core interests\, but we’ve done this before to good effect. Crossings is an eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads\, from the award-winning author of Eager. We read that book in 2021.\n\n \n\nSynopsis:\n \nSome 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth\, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us\, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In Crossings\, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the U.S. alone\, but as the new science of road ecology shows\, the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill. Creatures from antelope to salmon are losing their ability to migrate in search of food and mates; invasive plants hitch rides in tire treads; road salt contaminates lakes and rivers; and the very noise of traffic chases songbirds from vast swaths of habitat. \n Yet road ecologists are also seeking to blunt the destruction through innovative solutions. Goldfarb meets with conservationists building bridges for California’s mountain lions and tunnels for English toads\, engineers deconstructing the labyrinth of logging roads that web national forests\, animal rehabbers caring for Tasmania’s car-orphaned wallabies\, and community organizers working to undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon American cities.\n  \nToday\, as our planet’s road network continues to grow exponentially\, the science of road ecology has become increasingly vital. Written with passion and curiosity\, Crossings is a sweeping\, spirited\, and timely investigation into how humans have altered the natural world―and how we can create a better future for all living beings. 20 illustrations \n\n \n\nAwards:\n\n\nGrand Prize Winner of the 2024 Banff Mountain Book Competition\nWinner of the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism\nFinalist for several other awards including the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award\, Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction\, and the Colorado Book Award.\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Science News\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and Kirkus Reviews\n\n\nOSLS has 14 print copies\, an eBook and a Kindle; Amazon $19.99\, audio CD + used starting at $15.99; $9.20 on Kindle. If you listen to it as an audio book\, it will take 12 hours to hear the whole tale.\nParticipation in this event is a benefit of membership.  Not sure you membership is current?  Contact office@riwps.org \nRegistration required. Click here to register. \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/book-discussion-crossings/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,General Event,Programs,RIWPS Members Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T180000
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SUMMARY:Calling plant enthusiasts!
DESCRIPTION:March 20 from 6 – 8 pm\nChop – Culinary House of Providence\n211 Washington Street Providence\, RI 02903\nRIWPS is excited to co-host an in-person social event with Providence Green Drinks\, Grab a drink (or don’t) and prepare to talk native plants! \n\nclick here to get your ticket\n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/21946/
CATEGORIES:General Event,Programs
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