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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>
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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>
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		<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>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2011/01/03/memories-of-les-mehrhoff/#comments</comments>
		<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>Water Chestnut Pull, July 17, 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/07/14/chapmanpjuly172010/</link>
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		<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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		<title>BioBlitz 2010 A Success</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/06/14/bioblitz-2010-a-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The teams are just back in from BioBlitz 2010 and I&#8217;m sure people are working hard to unload gear, hang out sleeping bags and tents out to dry, and catch up on sleep. Thank you all for your tremendous efforts that made the event such a success. Thanks to the Block Island community for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conn. issues wetland invasive ID guide</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/04/19/conn-issues-wetland-invasive-id-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2010/04/19/conn-issues-wetland-invasive-id-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) has published an identification guide to Connecticut’s invasive aquatic and wetland plants. It can be downloaded via the below link (.pdf format, 8.8 MB). It&#8217;s dandy, so all you invasive species busters out there should take a look! Conn. Ag. Exp. Sta. Guide]]></description>
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		<title>Help Pull Stiltgrass in Burlingame</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/08/07/09stiltgrasspull/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/08/07/09stiltgrasspull/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Volunteers are needed to pull Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) at Burlingame State Campground, in Charlestown, RI, Thursday, August 13th, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. RI Department of Environmental Management Park Naturalist Neil Anthes will lead the charge against this big-time bad guy of the plant world. Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum), is an annual grass, native to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late Blight (think Irish potato famine) Found in Northeast</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/30/lateblightnews/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/30/lateblightnews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RINHS received the following text from the Massachusetts Introduced Pests Outreach Project, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and the UMass Extension Agriculture and Landscape Program, aimed at preventing the establishment of new pathogens and pests in Massachusetts. Visit their website for more information (http://www.massnrc.org/pests). PATHOGEN ALERT: Late Blight of Potatoes and [...]]]></description>
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