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Working Together for Resilience: Common Fence Point

Working Together for Resilience: Common Fence Point

by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Oct 27, 2022 | Coastal Communities, News

Neighbors have rallied to help improve their Portsmouth community’s coastal resilience. Wooden stakes appeared in the grass along the side of the road in Common Fence Point in Portsmouth, and several neighbors wondered, “What’s going on?” The Common Fence Point...
Webinar Features Narragansett Coastal Access Efforts

Webinar Features Narragansett Coastal Access Efforts

by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 16, 2022 | Coastal Communities, Events, News

The Narragansett Town Council, in 2021, allowed parking at three CRMC shoreline rights-of-way in Point Judith, and established the Coastal Access Improvement Committee (CAIC) to study shoreline access issues and make recommendations to the council. In a public webinar...

Capstone Experience Connects URI Students, Coastal Communities

by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Apr 20, 2022 | Capstone, Coastal Communities, News, Students

By Todd McLeish Illustration by URI landscape architecture student Monica Rao of a proposed boardwalk at the Bucklin Point wastewater treatment facility in East Providence Rising sea levels and extreme storms due to climate change are predicted to flood coastal...
Municipal Parking and Public Shoreline Access

Municipal Parking and Public Shoreline Access

by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Apr 12, 2022 | Coastal Communities, Marine Law, News

By Erica Meier Availability of parking near public rights-of-way to the shoreline is key to allowing meaningful access, but it’s also a source of conflict between coastal community residents and non-residents. Each municipality in Rhode Island handles parking...
Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month

by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 20, 2021 | Coastal Communities, News

November is Native Heritage Month, celebrating and honoring the rich histories and traditions of Indigenous peoples. Rhode Island’s coastal and marine areas are a part of the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett, Nipmuc, Wampanoag, and Niantic...
Indigenous Values to Restore Coastal Areas

Indigenous Values to Restore Coastal Areas

by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 16, 2021 | Coastal Communities, News

By Meredith HaasContributions by Allie Shinskey Retreat. Accommodate. Protect. Attack. These are common phrases used for adaptation and mitigation efforts in the “war on climate change.” But does this militaristic approach result in more conflict that hinders real...
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