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Rhode Island

Web Addresses
Primary ANS Contacts
   Freshwater Plants:    Freshwater Animals:
  • Hope Leeson
    Rhode Island Natural History Survey
    101 CIK, 1 Greenhouse Road, URI
    Kingston, RI 02881
    phone: 401.874.5822
    hleeson@rinhs.org
  • Hope Leeson
    Rhode Island Natural History Survey
    101 CIK, 1 Greenhouse Road, URI
    Kingston, RI 02881
    phone: 401.874.5822
    hleeson@rinhs.org
   Saltwater Plants   Saltwater Animals:
  • Kevin Cute
    Coastal Resources Management Council
    Stedman Gov't Center, Suite 3
    4808 Tower Hill Road
    Wakefield, RI 02879-1900
    phone: 401.783.3370
    kcute@crmc.ri.gov
  • Kevin Cute
    Coastal Resources Management Council
    Stedman Gov't Center, Suite 3
    4808 Tower Hill Road
    Wakefield, RI 02879-1900
    phone: 401.783.3370
    kcute@crmc.ri.gov
Panel Membership
   Agency:    Representative:
  • Rhode Island Natural History Survey
    101 CIK, 1 Greenhouse Road, URI
    Kingston RI 02881

Species Actively Managed
   Plants:    Animals:
  • Asiatic bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus)
  • common reed (Phragmites australis)
  • purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
  • reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea)

 

Other Established Species of Concern
   Plants:    Animals:
  • alga (Grateloupia turuturu)
  • cork tree (Phellodendron sp.)
  • curly-leaf pondweed (Potamogeton crispus)
  • dead-man's fingers (Codium fragile)
  • fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana)
  • garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
  • Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii)
  • Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica)
  • lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria)
  • multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora)
  • porcelain-berry (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata)
  • variable milfoil (Myriophyllum heterophyllum)
  • watercress (Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum)

 

  • Asiatic clam (Corbicula fluminea)
  • Asian shore crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus)
  • green crab (Carcinus maenas)
  • White didemnid (Didemnum sp)
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