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	<title>Rhode Island Natural History Survey</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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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 Potatoes
Late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walden Woods To Host BioBlitz July 4</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/18/concordbioblitz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like the Rhode Island BioBlitz (and who doesn&#8217;t?), why not try out the a Massachusetts BioBlitz (which FYI they call &#8216;Biodiversity Day&#8217;). Naturalist Peter Alden is organizing the BioDiversity Day event in Walden Woods in Concord, Mass., on July 4 and he&#8217;s looking for a few good naturalists. The event is being held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard in the Taxonomy Dept&#8230;. &#8220;Hello? Anyone here?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/15/futureoftaxonomy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/15/futureoftaxonomy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that RINHS is here for is to encourage the practice of taxonomy: connect those with taxonomic expertise with those interested in learning and otherwise to facilitate by preserving systematic collections, maintaining a reference library, and organizing and publishing the results.
All this is useful (necessary, in fact) if you want to know what&#8217;s going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goats on DOT payroll?</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/01/goatmowers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/06/01/goatmowers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting news item from Maryland. They are experimenting with goats to mow highway verge in a wetland inhabited by bog turtles. Mowers would be tough on the little fellas, you see (the turtles, not the goats, well they&#8217;d be tough on goats too but they&#8217;re fast enough to get out of the way). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marine Life Ethnohistory</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/05/26/marinelifehistory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/05/26/marinelifehistory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently asked me why some plants are considered invasive while others, that arrived here earlier (after all they all arrived here from somewhere else because RI was once all glaciated), are considered native. You can give &#8216;em the usual cliche about how it&#8217;s invasive if it is reproducing outside its normal range to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioBlitz 2009 Registration is Open</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/05/21/bioblitz09reg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/05/21/bioblitz09reg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To participate in BioBlitz 2009 you must register in advance. Online registration is open and a PDF form for mail and fax registrations will be available soon. To see event information, register online, or download a PDF form, click HERE.
Everyone should participate on a taxonomic team or be assigned to another duty. If you do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioBlitz 2009 Team Orientation May 6</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/05/05/bioblitz09orientation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/05/05/bioblitz09orientation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 20:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[RINHS and Roger Williams Park Zoo will hold an orientation for biological teams at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence on Wednesday, May 6, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The orientation is designed for participants to begin familiarizing themselves with this year&#8217;s site, the Sprague Farm property belonging to the Glocester Land Trust. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naturalist Skills Workshop—Ants, April 29</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/04/24/antsworkshop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/04/24/antsworkshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Naturalist Skills Workshop—Ants, Wednesday, April 29, 7-9 p.m., Coastal Institute Kingston. Sign up now.
The next Naturalist Skills Workshop will be Wednesday, April 29, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will be on ants. Dr. David Lubertazzi will review ant taxonomy, ant fauna of southern New England, and literature useful for ant identification. He will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you seen this plant?</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/04/13/have-you-seen-this-plant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/04/13/have-you-seen-this-plant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hleeson</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Invasives]]></category>

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Have You Seen This Plant?
Two new observations of Mile-a-Minute Vine (Persicaria perfoliata, syn. Polygonum perfoliatum) were made in Rhode Island in September 2008, resulting in a total of three known locations, in three Rhode Island municipalities.
Mile-a-Minute Vine was first reported growing wild in Pennsylvania in the late 1930&#8217;s, and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RINHS Conference to be on Marine Ecosystems and Off-Shore Development</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/03/20/conference2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/03/20/conference2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[RINHS will host its conference on marine ecosystems and off-shore development on Thursday, April 23, at the Quonset &#8216;O&#8217; Club, North Kingstown, RI.
For full details of this day-long event, including the speakers, registration information, and directions, visit the Conference 2009 webpage.
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