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Feb 8

Wild about Reading

Location: Kettle Pond Visitor Center, 50 Bend Road, Charlestown, RI

10:00am 11:00am

Feb 12

Intro to Firearms

Location: 1B Camp E Hun Tee Place, Exeter, RI 02822

8:30am 1:00pm

Feb 15

Wild about Reading

Location: Kettle Pond Visitor Center, 50 Bend Road, Charlestown, RI

10:00am 11:00am

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DEM Announces it will Increase the Use of Prescribed Burns in 2023 to Help Restore Native Ecosystems Overrun by Invasive Plants, Protect Rural Property from Wildfires

Friday, February 03, 2023

PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today is announcing a strategy of increasing the use of low-severity

DEM Issues Draft Water Quality Restoration Studies for Tiverton and Little Compton Waterbodies and Opens Public Comment Period with Workshop set for Jan. 30

Friday, January 20, 2023

PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environm

The Light Foundation and DEM set to Team Up for Third Annual Mentored Youth Wild Turkey Hunt

Thursday, January 19, 2023

PROVIDENCE, RI - The Light Foundation is teaming up with the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) for their third annual mentored youth wild turkey hunt this spring.

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