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	<title>Rhode Island Natural History Survey</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BioBlitz 2008 Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1,111 species in 24 hours entirely with volunteers! What an event! What a team effort. Thank you to the 115 participants. No questions asked, it was a grand success on all fronts! For details, including a tally by taxon, a list of rare species found, a link to the complete species list, as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Ready to BioBlitz?!</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/06/05/bioblitzmap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BioBlitz 2008 is here. Tomorrow at 3 P.M. as many as 24 teams of volunteer naturalists will hit the woods at the Westerly Land Trust&#8217;s Grills Preserve. If you are coming and still don&#8217;t know how to get there, here&#8217;s a map.
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		<title>Skills Workshops begin with Hymenoptera Workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/05/14/hymenopterasw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RINHS Announces a New Series of Natural History Skills Workshops
The Skills Workshops, to be held every month or so, will be chances for small groups of beginner and intermediate naturalists to work together with more advanced naturalists to develop their skills with particular groups of organisms. Workshops will focus on species identification, field survey tricks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>URI Scientists seek locations of healthy Hemlocks</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/04/29/uri-scientists-seek-locations-of-healthy-hemlocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article in yesterday&#8217;s ProJo about work being done by URI scientists to locate, and possibly clone, healthy Eastern Hemlocks in Rhode Island. These trees are being destroyed by two non-native invasive pests, the hemlock wooly adelgid, and the elongate hemlock scale.
Link to the full article here.


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		<title>New report calls to attention the role of plants in state Wildlife Action Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/04/28/hidden_in_plain_sight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This new report from NatureServe evaluates the role of flora in State wildlife action plans developed by individual U.S. states and territories. A summary of the full report, Hidden in Plain Sight (PDF, 1.4Mb), is provided below.
View the State Wildlife Action Plans website
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		<title>RINHS Lecture: Bearing Witness to the Past, Charles Cogbill</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/04/23/rinhs-lecture-bearing-witness-to-the-past-charles-cogbill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/04/23/rinhs-lecture-bearing-witness-to-the-past-charles-cogbill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bearing Witness to the Past: What Original Town Surveys Tell Us About the Presettlement New England Landscape
by Charles V. Cogbill, Ph.D.
Hubbard Brook Long-Term Ecological Research Project
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Weaver Auditorium · Coastal Institute Building
Greenhouse Road, URI, Kingston Campus (map)
A common practice of colonial land surveyors was to record “witness trees” as part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Naturalists Special Program March 28</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/03/20/2008dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RINHS invites the Rhode Island community to a special program honoring great naturalists of Rhode Island, Friday, March 28, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Independence Hall Auditorium * Independence Hall
Upper College Road, URI, Kingston Campus
Featured speaker: Roland Clement, biologist, administrator, author, and artist, has been a giant in the ecological movement in New England and beyond for much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invasive Species Mutual Aid Society</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/03/13/mutaidsoc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever blushed when telling someone you want to spend X dollars (where X is some large number) to control an invasive plant because of what it does to salamanders? I mean who ever even sees salamanders anyway. Well, the New Scientist recently had this news flash.
Currently wheat crops in East Africa and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Gray Wolf in Mass. in 160 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/03/05/gray-wolf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting tidbit:



local news updates
updated
Tuesday,  5:32 PM 
From the City &#38; Region staff at The Boston Globe


First wolf found in Mass. in 160 years
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		<title>RINHS Lecture, 2008 Distinguished Naturalist, and &#8216;Golden Eye&#8217; Award&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/03/03/clementlecture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/index.php/2008/03/03/clementlecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday evening, March 28, 2008, RINHS will host Naturalist Roland  Clement for Mark D. Gould Memorial Lecture Series on Rhode Island’s Fauna, Flora, Geology, and Ecosystems. 
Clement has been a giant in the ecological movement in New England for much of the last century, and will be describing great naturalists and landmarks of [...]]]></description>
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