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SUMMARY:Fire\, Forests\, and Native Plants: A Walk Through Ecological Recovery (Coventry)
DESCRIPTION:pitcher plant \nAugust 1\, 2026 \n10 am to noon \nNicholas Farm | Coventy RI \nJoin URI Professor Emeritus Brian Maynard for an exploration of Nicholas Farm forest restoration efforts. DEM burned 20 acres of Nicholas Farm more than a decade ago and cleared another 20 acres a few years later. We will walk a road between the two and be able to contrast the effects of each on recovery and species diversity. We should also encounter pitcher plant\, climbing fern and one-cone club moss. Moderate difficulty and off trail at times so wear prepare for ticks. \nThis walk is free and open to the public. \nDonations help support our walks and programs.   DONATE NOW \nGeneral walk guidelines \nWear clothing and sturdy footwear appropriate for the weather conditions and for protection against sun exposure\, ticks and other insects\, briars\, tree roots\, rocks\, mud\, poison ivy\, and other natural hazards etc. Bring plenty of water\, snacks\, and any personal items you may need during the walk. \nDogs are not permitted. \nCancellations \nShould you need to cancel\, contact communications@riwps.org  \nWe walk in light rain or shine. If severe weather requires cancellation\, we’ll email you—typically deciding the day before. \nRegistration is required \nSpace is limited to ensure everyone can observe plants and join the discussion. \nNote: Submit a separate registration for each person. \nMore specifics about the location provided upon registration. \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/fire-forests-and-native-plants-a-walk-through-ecological-recovery/
LOCATION:Coventry\, RI
CATEGORIES:General Event,Programs,Walks
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SUMMARY:First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Touisset Wildlife Refuge (Warren)
DESCRIPTION:This event is currently full.\nJoin Audubon’s Director of Properties\, Laura Carberry from 10 am to 12 pm on August 6 for a walk at Touisset Wildlife Refuge in Warren. Come explore several different habitats including forest\, fields and saltwater marshlands observing birds\, plants\, and butterflies. Who knows what we will discover! \nThis hike is approximately 1.5 miles in primary grassy trails. Please bring your binoculars\, sunscreen and bug spray. \n  \nFree and open to the public. \nDonations to help support our walks are appreciated.  DONATE NOW \nGeneral walk guidelines \nWear clothing and sturdy footwear appropriate for the weather conditions and for protection against sun exposure\, ticks and other insects\, briars\, tree roots\, rocks\, mud\, poison ivy\, and other natural hazards etc. Bring plenty of water\, snacks\, and any personal items you may need during the walk. \nDogs are not permitted. \nCancellations \nShould you need to cancel\, contact communications@riwps.org  \nWe walk in light rain or shine. If severe weather requires cancellation\, we’ll email you—typically deciding the day before. \nRegistration is required \nSpace is limited to ensure everyone can observe plants and join the discussion. \nNote: Submit a separate registration for each person \n  \n \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/first-thursday-botanizing-walk-touisset-wildlife-refuge-warren/
LOCATION:Warren\, RI
CATEGORIES:Botanizing Walk Series,General Event,Programs,Walks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T143000
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SUMMARY:Beechwood Lecture: Below and Above Collective - Creating Natural Floating Wetlands
DESCRIPTION:Below and Above\, A Floating Wetland Supports Life\nWednesday August  19\, 2026 | 1:30- 2:30 PM \nphoto – Below and Above Collective Website \nBeechwood Center | 44 Beach Street  | North Kingstown\, RI 02852 \n\nBelow and Above Collective is a collaboration of artists\, designers and a botanist creating natural floating wetlands. They engage communities with biodiversity and natural processes through art with ecological functionality and structures that participate in the web of life. \nCome learn about this collaboration and their projects including Below and Above\, A Floating Wetland Supports Life.  Botanist\, Hope Leeson\, will describe the steps the designers\, artists and a botanist took to imagine and realize aesthetically pleasing floating wetlands made primarily with natural material\, as an alternative to petroleum-based materials. Through photos and videos\, the audience will see examples of how a floating wetland can create a microhabitat for multiple aquatic and water dependent life forms and introduce the relationship of floating wetlands and the absorption of excess phosphorus. \nThe project Below and Above\, A Floating Wetland Supports Life included Hope\, who served as botanist\, Holly Ewald\, visual and community artist and founder of Urban Pond Procession Arts\, Alexandra Ionescu\, ecological artist and biomimicry practitioner\, and Matthew P. Muller and August Lehrecke\, co-founders of Pneuhaus\, an inflatable architecture studio. \nHope is a field botanist with 30 years of experience investigating wild plant communities throughout the northeast and desert southwest of North America.  Hope’s work includes teaching science of  botany and plant ecology at the Rhode Island School of Design\, documenting Rhode Island’s rare plant populations\, native plant communities\, invasive species\, and performing wetland assessments for environmental organizations\, engineering firms\, and government agencies. As botanist at the Rhode Island Natural History Survey\, she established the Rhody Native initiative to sustainably collect wild seed for native plant propagation. \nThis lecture series is offered by Beechwood Life Center. URI Master Gardeners and RIWPS volunteers work in collaboration at their Jules A. Cohen native plant garden and on this lecture series. Please do take a few minutes to enjoy the garden when you come. \nThe program is free and open to the public. Registration required as space is limited. \nTo Register: Contact the Volunteer/Program Coordinator at The Beechwood Center for Life Enrichment –  401-268-1594 or malyward@northkingstownri.gov \nPlease note: \n\n\n\nRegistration is for this program only and not for future programs listed below.\nAlthough the Beechwood Garden programs are offered to members and the public\, if you have not attended past lectures and/or registered your contact information with the Beechwood Center in the last three (3) years\, you may need to provide an updated information form.  The form will be provided by Beechwood Staff at the time of the lecture. Completion of this form is required for participation in all Beechwood Programs.\nMaster Gardeners receive education credit for attending.\n\n\n\n\nOther programs scheduled for 2026  \n• October 21 2026:  Evolution of the American  Urban Forest\, Chris Fletcher\, Certified Arborist \nWe hope you can join us! \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/beechwood-lecture-creating-natural-floating-wetlands/
LOCATION:Beechwood Center\, 44 Beach Street\, North Kingstown\, RI\, 02852\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beechwood Lecture Series,General Event,Programs
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SUMMARY:Summer Flowers on the Wood River\, Hope Valley (08/20)
DESCRIPTION:All 4 session of Summer Flowers on the Wood River are at capacity. \nSummer Evening Kayak: A Delightful Way to Experience Wetland Flowers\nWhen\n• Thursday\, July 23\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm\n• Friday\, July 24\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm\nRain date Saturday\, July 25\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm \n• Thursday\, August 20\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm\n• Friday\, August 21\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm\nRain date Saturday\, August 22\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm \nWhere\nWPWA\, 203 Arcadia Road\, Hope Valley\, RI 02832 (Google Directions)\, (Written Directions ) \nJoin the Wood-Pawcatuck Wild and Scenic Rivers Stewardship Council\, the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society\, and the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association for a series of summer evening paddles on the Wood River to discover aquatic flowers.  Besides plant identification we will also learn about the ecology of the Wood River and why it has been designated as a National Wild and Scenic River. \nIn July we usually see native rhododendrons\, sweet pepperbush\, pickerel weed\, and several types of floating water lilies. With any luck there will still be swamp rose and swamp azaleas still blooming.  In August we should be treated to Joe-pye weed\, boneset\, monkey flowers\, bur marigolds and the spectacular cardinal flowers. \nThese paddles will be led by naturalist Denise Poyer\, former Program Director for WPWA and currently a member the Wild and Scenic Rivers Council and RIWPS.  The Wild and Scenic Rivers Council is subsidizing some of the cost of these paddles to help make them more available to the community. \n• Limit to 15 participants per paddle. The paddles are appropriate for beginner kayakers\, 10 and over. \n• Fee: $30 per person\, includes individual kayaks\, paddles\, life jackets\, and paddle guides. Fee is due at time of registration. Fee  is non-refundable. No discount for bringing your own kayak and no refunds for no shows.   \n• Participants will be asked to sign a standard liability waiver at the event prior to participation. Participants under 18 must have a parent or legal guardian sign on their behalf. \n• General Guidelines for WPWA kayaking programs: What to Wear. What to Bring\, What to Expect \nLinks to register for this August 20 paddle or the other upcoming paddle in this series.
URL:https://riwps.org/event/summer-flowers-on-the-wood-river-08-20/
LOCATION:Hope Valley\, RI
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:Summer Flowers on the Wood River\, Hope Valley (08/21)
DESCRIPTION:All 4 session of Summer Flowers on the Wood River are at capacity.\nSummer Evening Kayak: A Delightful Way to Experience Wetland Flowers\nWhen\n• Thursday\, July 23\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm\n• Friday\, July 24\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm\nRain date Saturday\, July 25\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm \n• Thursday\, August 20\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm\n• Friday\, August 21\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm\nRain date Saturday\, August 22\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7:30 pm \nWhere\nWPWA\, 203 Arcadia Road\, Hope Valley\, RI 02832 (Google Directions)\, (Written Directions ) \nJoin the Wood-Pawcatuck Wild and Scenic Rivers Stewardship Council\, the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society\, and the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association for a series of summer evening paddles on the Wood River to discover aquatic flowers.  Besides plant identification we will also learn about the ecology of the Wood River and why it has been designated as a National Wild and Scenic River. \nIn July we usually see native rhododendrons\, sweet pepperbush\, pickerel weed\, and several types of floating water lilies. With any luck there will still be swamp rose and swamp azaleas still blooming.  In August we should be treated to Joe-pye weed\, boneset\, monkey flowers\, bur marigolds and the spectacular cardinal flowers. \nThese paddles will be led by naturalist Denise Poyer\, former Program Director for WPWA and currently a member the Wild and Scenic Rivers Council and RIWPS.  The Wild and Scenic Rivers Council is subsidizing some of the cost of these paddles to help make them more available to the community. \n• Limit to 15 participants per paddle. The paddles are appropriate for beginner kayakers\, 10 and over. \n• Fee: $30 per person\, includes individual kayaks\, paddles\, life jackets\, and paddle guides. Fee is due at time of registration. Fee  is non-refundable. No discount for bringing your own kayak and no refunds for no shows.   \n• Participants will be asked to sign a standard liability waiver at the event prior to participation. Participants under 18 must have a parent or legal guardian sign on their behalf. \n• General Guidelines for WPWA kayaking programs: What to Wear. What to Bring\, What to Expect \nLinks to register for the last paddle in this  series
URL:https://riwps.org/event/summer-flowers-on-the-wood-river-08-21/
LOCATION:Hope Valley\, RI
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T160000
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SUMMARY:A Walk Through Climate-Adaptive Forestry: Stewarding Rhode Island’s Forests for the Future (Richmond)
DESCRIPTION:This walk is currently full. \nResearch and Practice: What Does Climate-Adaptive Forestry Look Like?\nOn August 27\, 2026\, from 4–6 pm\, URI Forestry Specialist and Research Associate Christopher Riely will lead a walk at a 40-acre research site at RI DEM’s Hillsdale Preserve in Richmond\, RI. Participants will explore recently implemented examples of different climate-adaptive forestry approaches and learn how these practices are being studied in a local forest. \nThe Hillside research area\, is an affiliated site of the  Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) Network\,  a collaborative research effort that tests experimental forest management approaches across different forest ecosystems in the United States and Canada.  At this site researchers are studying how oak forests in southern New England can be managed to remain healthy and resilient in the face of climate change and other forest health challenges. \nPartners from URI and RIDEM are implementing three different silvicultural treatments — forest management approaches that involve selectively removing or retaining trees to influence forest health and future growth — along with an unmanaged control in adjacent areas of an oak-hickory forest experiencing acute health issues exacerbated by climate stress. \nAnother component of the project is a study monitoring and comparing the survival and growth of planted trees of both native oak species and non-native oak species that may be adapted to changing conditions in Rhode Island. \n  \nThis walk is free and open to the public. \nDonations help support our walks and programs.   DONATE NOW \nGeneral walk guidelines \nWear clothing and sturdy footwear appropriate for the weather conditions and for protection against sun exposure\, ticks and other insects\, briars\, tree roots\, rocks\, mud\, poison ivy\, and other natural hazards etc. Bring plenty of water\, snacks\, and any personal items you may need during the walk. \nDogs are not permitted. \nCancellations \nShould you need to cancel\, contact communications@riwps.org  \nWe walk in light rain or shine. If severe weather requires cancellation\, we’ll email you—typically deciding the day before. \nRegistration is required \nSpace is limited to ensure everyone can observe plants and join the discussion. \nNote: Submit a separate registration for each person. \nMore specifics about the location provided upon registration. \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/a-walk-through-climate-adaptive-forestry-stewarding-rhode-islands-forests-for-the-future-richmond/
LOCATION:Richmond\, RI
CATEGORIES:General Event,Programs,Walks
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