Welcome to RIWPS!Welcome!
 The 25th Anniversary celebration has begun! RI Department of Environmental Management Director, Janet Coit
and Special Guest and first President of RIWPS, Lisa Gould, helped to launch the Society's 25th year.
Congratulations to our 2012 Award recipients – Karen Asher, Lifetime Service Award and Graham Laird Gardner, Volunteer of the Year. Stay tuned – we have big plans for 2012!
Talks to us -- we want to hear from you. Email your comments and suggestions.Mary Lou Upham
President
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 RIWPS ANUAL PLANT SALE
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Best Native Plant Sale in Rhode Island!
9:00 am – 12:00 noon, rain or shine
Members Only 8:00 am – 9:00 am
URI's East Farm
Route 108
South Kingstown, RI
Native wildflowers, ferns, a large tree and shrub selection,
pond plants and much more!
NATIVE PLANTS WANTED
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FERNS TO KNOW AND GROW
Sunday, June 3, 2012 (Classroom Session)
Norman Bird Sanctuary
Middletown, RI
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SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPING 2
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Landscape Management for Water Quality Protection, Resource Conservation, and Habitat Enhancement
Roger Williams Park Botanical Center
Providence, RI
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PLANT-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS RULE THE WORLD
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Parker Woodland and Maxwell Mays Wildlife Refuges
Coventry, RI
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WHAT'S THAT INSECT AND WHAT'S IT DOING WITH THAT PLANT?
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
East Farm
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
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IDENTIFYING RHODE ISLAND GOLDENRODS OF FIELD AND FOREST
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Grills Preserve
Westerly, RI
One hour classroom session followed by a field trip
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MUSHROOM WALK
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Alton Jones
West Greenwich, RI
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BECOME A PLANT CONSERVATION VOLUNTEER
... with New England Wild Flower Society
A Walk in the woods will never be the same!
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NEW ENGLAND WILDFLOWER SOCIETY — FLORA NOVAE ANGLIAE
New England Wild Flower Society's Flora Novae Angliae
has been published by Yale University Press. This 1008 page manual by research botanist Arthur Haines has 945 illustrations by Elizabeth Farnsworth and Gordon Morrison.
MORE INFO & ORDER
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"Sometimes lifelong passions can grow on trees"
by Doug Norris
Flotsam & Jetsam
(Published: March 4, 2010 in the South County Independent – North-East Independent)
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