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		<title>Water chestnut pull is on for Saturday, Sept. 10</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2011/09/06/water-chestnut-pull-is-on-for-saturday-sept-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RINHS and Westerly Land Trust are coordinating another water chestnut pull at Chapman Pond in Westerly to replace the one we had to cancel because of Hurricane Irene. On Saturday, September 10, from 8 am to 12 noon, please come out for a muddy morning on the water and help preserve our wonderful pond for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Chestnut Pull August 27 CANCELLED</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2011/08/26/water-chestnut-pull-august-27-cancelled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The water chestnut pull scheduled for Chapman Pond, Westerly, on Saturday, August 27, is cancelled. With the approach of Hurricane Irene, many of our most reliable volunteers have informed us they will be busy with storm preparations and can&#8217;t make it. We are rescheduling the Chapman Pond water chestnut pull for Saturday, September 10, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pull Water Chestnut for Fun and Profit&#8230;Well, Just for Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2011/07/19/pull-water-chestnut-for-fun-and-profit-well-just-for-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Volunteers are needed to help pull the invasive plant water chestnut (Trapa natans) from Chapman Pond, in Westerly, on Sunday, July 24, from 8 am to 12 noon. Meet at the DEM boat ramp off Town Landfill Road off of Rt-91 (Westerly-Bradford Road). Everyone should bring sturdy gloves that can get wet, clothes that can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Service for Les Mehrhoff Scheduled</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2011/01/24/mehrhoff-servic-scheduled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2011/01/24/mehrhoff-servic-scheduled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RINHS received the email below this morning through the invasive species grapevine (or would that be bittersweet vine?). It is from the family of late invasive plant guru Les Mehrhoff and announces a date for a memorial service. Someone from RINHS will definitely be going so anyone from the RI area interested in attending the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of Les Mehrhoff</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2011/01/03/memories-of-les-mehrhoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the unexpected death, on December 22, of Les Mehrhoff, the natural history family lost one of its greatest, most visionary members. Les&#8211;botanist, ecologist, teacher, founder and leader and leader of IPANE (Invasive Plant Atlas of New England), and all-round invasive plant guru&#8211;suffered a massive heart attack at his home in Connecticut. Les was working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stiltgrass Symposium Available Online</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/10/25/stiltgrass-symposium-available-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were investing in invasive plants then you&#8217;d put a &#8220;strong buy&#8221; recommendation on Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum). This is a species that is already present in Rhode Island at a number of localities and that is proving difficult to combat. So to get all the latest information on a plant we&#8217;re probably going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Asian Longhorn Beetle Finds in Worcester Co., Mass.</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/09/22/alb_news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/09/22/alb_news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Massachusetts Introduced Pests Outreach Project made the following announcement on September 21, 2010. For our Rhode Island audience, learn to ID ALB and its damage to trees and keep a sharp lookout. Comprehensive ID tools from Mass. DCR DEM Fact Sheet Report anything suspicious to the Rhode Island Tree Council at albfreeri@gmail.com, to RI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No News is Good News</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/08/11/no-news-is-good-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/08/11/no-news-is-good-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A periodic reassessment of invasive species in the marine environment in New England has revealed&#8230;nothing new. That&#8217;s good given the list of potentially disastrous introductions that could occur (think Caulerpa taxifolia, mitten crab, or rapa whelk). RINHS was involved in the previous assessment, in 2001, and has been following the current assessment from a distance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humans as Biocontrol for Invasive Species</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/08/10/humans-as-biocontrol-for-invasive-species/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/08/10/humans-as-biocontrol-for-invasive-species/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, we get this question from time to time: why don&#8217;t we encourage people to develop a palate for invasive species as a way to control them? The usual answer is that encouraging human uses of invasive species encourages people to move them around, either intentionally, to create new populations for exploitation, or accidentally, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Chestnut Pull, July 17, 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/07/14/chapmanpjuly172010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/07/14/chapmanpjuly172010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Volunteers are needed to pull water chestnut from Chapman Pond, Westerly, this Saturday, July 17, from 9 to Noon. Westerly Land Trust and RINHS are organizing a morning sortie to combat the invasive pond weed water chestnut in Chapman Pond. The infestation in Westerly, the third detected in Rhode Island, was found in 2009. It [...]]]></description>
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