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SUMMARY:30th Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker - Lisa Lofland Gould
DESCRIPTION:Back to Our Roots: Being Wild About Wild Plants\nIn celebration of RIWPS 30th Anniversary\, Lisa Lofland Gould\, founding member and first president of RIWPS will address the question\, Why should anyone care about plants\, and especially about that seemingly obscure and often subtle flora we Wild Folks so enjoy?  She will consider the pivotal role that plants play in our lives\, some history of human knowledge of the plant world\, and how we seek to understand plants today. \nLisa grew up in Winston-Salem\, NC in a family of nature lovers. Not surprisingly\, she majored in Biology at UNC-G and went on to earn an MS in Zoology (ecology and behavior of birds) at the University of Rhode Island. At URI she met her husband\, Mark\, who was also an ecologist. Lisa taught biology at URI for many years and was a research associate in the Department of Natural Resources Science. In addition to her legacy at RIWPS\, she cofounded and served as first executive director of the RI Natural History Survey\, and initiated the RI Invasive Species Council. \nWhile in New England\, Lisa especially enjoyed leading walks and teaching plant identification courses for state and regional environmental organizations. Among other publications\, she is a coauthor of Vascular Flora of Rhode Island and Coastal Plants from Cape Cod to Cape Canaveral (UNC Press). \nNow that she is back in North Carolina\, she enjoys participating in activities with the NC Audubon Society\, the Piedmont Land Conservancy\, the Carolina Butterfly Society\, and the NC Native Plant Society (where she currently serves as Secretary of the board of directors). Most her travel these days involves visiting her daughters and their families in New York City and the Albuquerque\, New Mexico area\, where she hopes to pass along her passion for nature to her three fabulous granddaughters. \nTalk cosponsored by\nRhode Island Natural History Survey and URI Master Gardener Program\, Extension Outreach Center \nDetail for parking below. \n\nSchedule of Events\n1:00 to 1:30 — Business Meeting\nIncludes electing the Board of Trustees\, announcing the recipients of the  RIWPS Volunteer Awards and the recipient of RIWPS annual grant \n1:30 to 2:00 — Refreshments & Fellowship\nIf your last name begins with the letters N through Z\, please bring refreshments to share. \n2:00 to 3:30 — Guest Speaker\, Lisa Lofland Gould \nFree and Open to the Public \n\nThanks to our Seed Starters East we offering two different Spring Ephemerals for sale \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				trailing arbutus\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				virginia bluebells\n				\n		\n\nEnjoy the small (3 -4″) woodland Trailing Arbutus with its white flower. It likes shade and is found in pine and oak tree forests and the taller (1-2′) Virginia Bluebells\, whose pink buds open to purple flowers.  It thrives in partial to full shade in rich soils. Both plants are best in mass plantings. Happy Spring! \nOnly cash and checks accepted. \n\nParking \nThe closest parking lot to the Pharmacy building is at the Coastal Institute\, 1 Greenhouse Road\, Kingston. Enter this parking lot from Flagg Road.  Additional parking is found in the Fine Arts Parking lot\, also accessed from Flagg Road. \nCampus Map.  Please note the Coastal Institute on the campus map is marked URI Watershed Watch and the Pharmacy building is marked Brett M. Ferret. \n  \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/annual-meeting-lisa-gould-guest-speaker/
LOCATION:URI Pharmacy Building\, Room 170\, 7 Greenhouse Road\, Kingston\, RI\, 02881
CATEGORIES:General Event,General Meeting,Programs,Talks
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SUMMARY:General Meeting & Guest Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Big & Little Bluestem\, Michigan roadside. Photo Rhobin’s Garden Blog \nMeadows of Native Warm-Season Grasses and Forbs Coming to New England’s Roadsides?\nA major research project of the New England Transportation Consortium (NETC)\, funded by the Department of Transportation in all six New England states\, aims to find the most affordable\, reliable\, and expeditious methods for establishing meadows of native warm-season grasses (NWSG) and forbs along New England roadsides. These meadows would replace a large portion of the existing introduced cool-season turf grasses that require high resource inputs and frequent mowing. By transitioning to more sustainable management practices\, Departments of Transportation can save on fuel costs\, reduce harmful emissions\, increase pollinator populations\, increase carbon sequestration\, reduce erosion\, improve storm water infiltration\, restore native ecological system functions\, and possibly increase soil rhizodegradation of petroleum pollutants given off by vehicles. \nJohn Campanelli\, a graduate student in ecological restoration at the University of Connecticut\, will discuss his research finding for this project. One of the easiest ways to transition from current populations of predominantly introduced cool season grasses to native warm season ones is to reduce mowing to once a year or once every other year. Wild NWSGs\, such as Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)\, as well as native cool-season grasses\, such as many varieties of Carex\, currently populate a large portion of New England roadsides. By pursuing a practice that could be labeled “benign neglect”\, these existing colonies of native grasses can grow more dense by out-competing the non-native cool-season grasses and weeds previously introduced by Department of Transportation management practices. In addition\, John will discuss the specific “ecosystem services” of these meadows of NWSGs and forbes. \nJohn Campanelli received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and Columbia Universities. His graduate research is conducted with Professor Julia Kuzovkina\, Department of Plant Science\, University of Connecticut. \nSchedule of Events\n1:00 to 1:30 — Business Meeting \n1:30 to 2:00 — Refreshments & Fellowship\nIf your last name begins with the letters O-Z\, please bring refreshments to share. \n2:00 to 3:30 — Guest Speaker: John Campanelli\, Graduate Student\, Department of Plant Science\, University of Connecticut \nMaps of the URI Kingston Campus
URL:https://riwps.org/event/general-meeting-guest-lecture/
LOCATION:URI\, Coastal Institute (Weaver Auditorium)\, 1 Greenhouse Road\, Kingston\, RI\, 02881\, United States
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