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Drawing Wild — Museum Of Natural History

(3.16) Register now for Drawing Wild: From the Collection at the Museum of Natural History in Roger Williams Park. Bring a small easel or chair and your drawing or painting materials, and choose your subject from the collections of birds, bears, lions, and Oceanic artifacts. Museum staff will also select some special “guests” from the …

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Urban Ponds Procession

(5.14) The 9th annual Urban Parks Procession kicks off Saturday at 6pm from Roosevelt Lake behind the Casino at Roger Williams Park. The Tomaquag Museum provides this year’s theme as musicians, nature-lovers, historians, and area residents and students parade along the city’s chain of ponds. Because Mashapaug Pond was a settlement site for Indigenous People …

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‘The Lost Museum’ At Brown

A curious installation over at Brown University reifies the collection of a forgotten naturalist. A group of students, professors, and artists calling themselves “The Jenks Society for Lost Museums” has spent the past year researching the Jenks Museum, re-collecting scattered relics and remnants, and transforming words into rooms and fragments of curatorial description into spectral …

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Snowy Owls In Providence

This has been a remarkable winter for local birders and ornithologists due to the invasion, or irruption, of snowy owls in the area. URI’s resident snowy expert, Natural Resources Science Professor Peter Paton, spoke on CBS Evening News yesterday; unfortunately he seems to have been lost in subsequent editing. (Still, go here to see the …

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Crypt Tours At Museum Of Natural History

(10.27,28) The Museum of Natural History has some special events scheduled for this weekend. In addition to spooky stories, creature features, mystery guests and a trick-or-treat bag full of Halloween fun, visitors can take haunted museum vault tours (additional admission applies, children under 4 not admitted). According to the ProJo, Only 2 percent of the …

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Storm Blows Out Peregrine Webcam Signal

[UPDATE: The signal has been restored! The chicks have grown a little bigger. I think number four is still with us. CLICK HERE. BC] We hope temporarily. According to the Rhode Island Audubon Society website the bad weather has knocked out the live feed and they are working to restore the signal. Hope the gang …

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Rhode Island Abuzz With Bee Conventioneers

“Providence” — the city name attributed to Warwick for all things concerning airports and conference locations — is hosting the Eastern Apicultural Society‘s annual convention this week. If you’ve noticed an influx of trucker hats and pickups advertising raw honey, you’re probably somewhere near the Crowne Plaza. Which is where you should be, if you …

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Environmental Films At Knight Memorial Library

Providence Community Library, the Friends of Knight Memorial Library and Trees 2020 are excited to present two free environmentally-themed films tonight at the Knight Memorial Library, starting at 6pm. The Man Who Planted Trees (30 minutes animated) This film tells the story of a shepherd who repairs the ruined ecosystem of a secluded valley by …

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If You Must Swim With The Seals

. . . make sure they are the really really tasty-looking kind. Following the confirmed sighting of a great white shark off the coast of Massachusetts, the Coast Guard issued a shark warning last Friday. According to WBZ the Coast Guard suggests that the sharks are attracted by the growing seal population. “Predation is not …

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All We Are Saying Is Give Bees A Chance

Here’s a fantastic article and video about the White House honeybees. Yet a blurb last year about a White House bee swarm prompted one commenter to accuse Michelle Obama of breaking a D.C. ordinance stating that hives can’t be kept within 500 feet of a residence (although “enclosed properties” are exempt—does the White House fence …

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