by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 6, 2023 | Fall/Winter '23
Training Landscape Stewards Fostering Agricultural Careers & Safeguarding Ecosystems By Annie Sherman| Photographs by Jesse Burke THE SUN IS ILLUMINATING AN UNSEASONABLY warm November day, and LaKiesha Stromley of Wild and Scenic Fine Gardening and Horticulture is...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 6, 2023 | Fall/Winter '23
Dirty, Muddy, Cold, and Wet––And Loving It Oyster Farmers Describe Their Calling By Pearl Marvell Above: clip from ‘Oyster Farm Tour at Hog Island.’ IT IS A SUNNY MORNING IN OCTOBER. The water is calm and sparkling in Wickford Cove. The fleet of pleasure...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 6, 2017 | Winter 2017
Narragansett Bay Watershed Our natural systems provide myriad goods and services, but we often don’t think about exactly how valuable those goods and services are to our economy and society. We instinctively recognize cleaner water to play in, better fishing, and less...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 23, 2015 | Fall 2015
Book Review: The Devil’s Cormorant The cormorant’s reputation is, if nothing else, complicated. They are revered in Japan, where fishermen have used the birds under imperial protection for hundreds of years. They are reviled in Henderson Harbor, N.Y., where...
