Learn or review how to ID plants using field guides (Newcombs or Ellman) and the online resource, Go Botany. We will start in the classroom to learn how to use a key to identify plants reviewing plant terminology and plant characteristics in the process. From there, we will apply those skills using Go Botany to […]
Note. As the first Thursday in July falls on the holiday weekend, this walk is actually on the second Thursday in July!!!! Our walk guide will be Garry Plunkett. Check back later for a description of this walk. This walk is a part of our First Thursday Botanizing Walk Series. See our Botanizing Walks home page […]
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Our walk guide will be Kelly Perry. Check back later for a description of this walk. This walk is a part of our First Thursday Botanizing Walk Series. See […]
Doug Tallamy has filmed a recent version of this talk and generously made it available to us. Click here for this announcement and watch. Join Doug Tallamy for a talk about his newest publication, Nature’s Best Hope. Recent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, and three billion fewer birds in […]
Spectacle Pond, photo DMcGrady The Matunuck Hills area of South Kingstown is part of the glacial moraine where the mounds and kettles form a scalloped landscape. Many of the kettles hold small ponds. These ponds are groundwater fed with water levels that fluctuate with the seasons. They typically fill up in the winter and drop […]
Doug Tallamy was scheduled to deliver this talk for RIWPS this summer in cooperation with the Warren Land Commission Trust. Doug has generously shared a video of a recent presentation. […]
Watch the recording on our Previously Recoded Programs/Events On November 21, RIWPS invited Dr. Susan Barton from the University of Delaware Plant and Soil Science Department to give a virtual […]
This program is full. We are not accepting any new registrations. If you would like to be put on a waiting list, please contact office@riwps.org. RIWPS bookworms are invited to […]
Watch on Recording of Previous Programs/Events Join a conversation with ecologist Doug Tallamy, as he discusses his latest research and most recent book, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to […]