Press Releases
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September 27, 2008: “Last Child in the Woods” Author Richard Louv at CCRI
“Rhode Island… could become the leading state in the children and nature movement."
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Maureen Sheridan
Phone: (401) 331-7110 x20 |
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July 16, 2008: Concerted Conservation Serves the Sakonnet Community
Preserving land and open space is a shared responsibility, which is being accomplished in Little Compton and Tiverton.
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Pam Pomfret
Pam Pomfret, Associate Director of Philanthropy (401) 331 7110 or ppomfret@tnc.org |
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March 31, 2008: The Nature Conservancy and University of Rhode Island Team Up to Award Student Research Grants
The Nature Conservancy Global Marine Initiative and the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography have awarded $12,000 grants to two outstanding students at URI/GSO who are studying biodiversity in oceans and coasts.
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Lorraine Devault
Phone: (401) 874-6871
E-mail: ldevault@tnc.org |
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February 11, 2008: Jamestown Farms Preservation Provides Models for Partnering and Economic Contributions
A mutually supporting partnership of federal and state agencies, the Town of Jamestown, The Nature Conservancy, and individual donors today celebrated the purchase of the development rights to the Dutra and Neale family farms in Jamestown.
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Janet Coit
Phone: (401) 331-7110 x19 |
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January 22, 2008: Partnership Protects Treaty Rock Farm
Partnership between Conservation Groups and Community protect historical coastal farm in Little Compton, RI.
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John Berg
Phone: (401)331-7110, ext. 22
E-mail: jberg@tnc.org |
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December 21, 2007: Grills Family and Conservation Partnership to Preserve Environmentally Valuable Riverfront in Hopkin
The Nature Conservancy, the Hopkinton Land Trust and the Department of Environmental Management today announced the purchase of 670 acres of important ecological open space and riverfront land owned by the Grills family along the Pawcatuck River in Hopkinton.
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Kathleen Wainwright
Phone: (401) 331-7110 x23 |
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June 04, 2007: The Nature Conservancy and University of Rhode Island Award Grant for Marine Conservation Research
Graduate students will study Rhode Island fish nurseries and mangrove forests in the British Virgin Islands
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Rhode Island Field Office
Phone: (401) 331-7110 x10
E-mail: ri@tnc.org |
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January 24, 2007: The Nature Conservancy Purchases Conservation Easements for Tiverton’s Well-Known Middle Acres Farm
Lucien Lebreux has protected his Middle Acres Farm in Tiverton by selling conservation easements to The Nature Conservancy
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John Berg
Phone: (401) 331-7110 x22 |
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December 18, 2006: Nature Conservancy Acquisition in Rhode Island Adds to Pawcatuck Borderlands Preservation
The Nature Conservancy, along with local, state and federal partners, has acquired the 970-acre Phebe M. Shepard Estate property in the Pawcatuck Borderlands. The purchase is the largest single property acquired in the 20-year history of the Rhode Island Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
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Kevin Essington
Phone: (401) 331-7110 |
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September 18, 2006: The Nature Conservancy Protects 100 More Acres Of Tiverton's Valuable Coastal Forest
This open space acquisition adds to the protected area within the largest undeveloped and unfragmented forest in the Rhode Island East Bay region.
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John Berg
Phone: (401) 331-7110 x 22 |
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April 10, 2006: A Tree Falls in RI’s Forest – Will it Make a Sound?
RI ranks first in U.S. for projected loss of forests by 2050 says report.
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Kevin Essington
Phone: (401) 331-7110 |
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April 03, 2006: The Nature Conservancy Protects More than 300 Acres in North Stonington and Preston
The Conservancy recently purchased 302 acres in North Stonington and Preston. The property, located next to Pachaug State Forest, was owned by the Noyes family for several generations, and family members wanted to see it preserved.
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Jeff Zanelli
Phone: (860) 344-0716 x 332
E-mail: Jeff_Zanelli@tnc.org |
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January 07, 2006: Jones Property, a 20-year Conservation Priority Protected
The Nature Conservancy and the Block Island Land Trust completed a transaction to conserve 40 acres of land just south of Rodman’s Hollow.
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Rhode Island Chapter Office
Phone: (401) 331-7110
E-mail: ri@tnc.org |
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July 14, 2005: Nature Programs and New Trails to Explore at the Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has created three new hiking trails with the help of volunteers and Boy Scouts on its 841-acre Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve in Charlestown, Rhode Island.
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Cheryl Wiitala
Phone: (401) 331-7110 x25
E-mail: cwiitala@tnc.org |
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November 05, 2004: Ballot Measure Passes with 71 Percent Support on Election Day
This $70 million bond will help local municipalities and land trusts protect precious open space at a time when development pressures are growing across the state.
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Rhode Island Chapter Office
Phone: (401) 331-7110
E-mail: ri@tnc.org |
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September 20, 2004: 900 Forested Acres Preserved at River's Source
Series of Conservancy Acquisitions Links Land at Headwaters of Queen's River.
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John Matthiessen
Phone: (860) 344-0716 x332
E-mail: jmatthiessen@tnc.org |
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June 14, 2004: Open Space Supporters Praise Farsighted Proposal
Advocates of conservation, clean water, recreation and farmland preservation are celebrating Rhode Island's House Finance Committee's proposal for a $68 million Open Space, Recreation, Bay and Watershed Protection Bond referendum for this November's ballot.
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Janet Coit
Phone: (401) 331-7110 x19
E-mail: jcoit@tnc.org |
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June 04, 2004: Dam Removal Under Study for Shunock River
As part of a plan to restore the Shunock River as habitat for migratory fish, the Wood Pawcatuck Watershed Association and The Nature Conservancy is studying the possibility of removing the dam at Parke Pond on the Shunock River.
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Lori Urso
Wood Pawcatuck Watershed Assoc.
Phone: (401) 539-9017
Kevin Essington
Pawcatuck Borderlands Project
Phone: (860) 535-1355 |
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May 03, 2004: Partnership Protects 94 Acres
Department of Environmental Management, Nature Conservancy join forces to purchase addition to state's Durfee Hill Management Area in Glocester.
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John Matthiessen
Phone: (860) 344-0716 x332
Gail Mastrati, RI DEM
Phone: (401) 222-4700 x2402 |
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February 12, 2004: Local Couple Protects Family Land on Quicksand Pond
Fifteen acres on one of Rhode Island's most scenic and coastal salt ponds are now protected, thanks to the generous conservationists who own them.
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John Berg
Phone: (401) 331-7110 x22
E-mail: jberg@tnc.org |
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February 04, 2004: Nature Conservancy Acquires 169 Acres in Queen's River Watershed
The Nature Conservancy today purchased 169 acres from Everett, David and Richard Berlinsky, protecting important land along the Queen's River.
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Kathleen Wainwright
Phone: (401) 331-7110 ext. 23
E-mail: kwainwright@tnc.org |
