Volume 1, Issue 2, 2001

This issue addresses land-use planning and development, recreational fishing, and eelgrass restoration.

Features

Growing, Growing, Gone: Can Smart Growth Planning Save Paradise? pdf
By Monica Allard Cox
With development proceeding at an unprecedented rate, coastal managers and land-use planners and communities are trying to balance economic and environmental issues and keep everybody happy.

All That Glitters: Planning in Newport in the Gilded Age pdf
Excerpted by Monica Allard Cox
Almost 90 years ago, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted grappled with many of the same planning issues that city and town planners face today.

Sowing Seeds for Eelgrass Harvest pdf
By Kalle Matso
URI researchers are breaking new ground in seagrass restoration.

In Brief

Researchers track killer pathogen to solve aquaculture mystery pdf
By Tony Corey

Schwartz named Environmental Educator of the Year & Guide to marine mammals and turtles named best nature guidebook pdf
By Malia Schwartz

And the awards go to ... pdf
By Malia Schwartz

Cross-island trail fruit of regional planning on Aquidneck Island, R.I. pdf
By Monica Allard Cox

Virtual gardens ever green pdf
By Monica Allard

Up to the Minute

Playing the Numbers: Gauging the Impact of Recreational Fishing in Rhode Island pdf
By Tony Corey