PROVIDENCE - As campers and other vacationers prepare for their upcoming getaways, the Department of Environmental Management is urging them to refrain from transporting firewood to and from other areas, and to use, instead, only local firewood at their campsites and summer cottages.
There are...
PROVIDENCE – Governor Lincoln Chafee, Department of Environmental Management Director Janet Coit, and DEM agriculture chief Ken Ayars joined USDA Rural Development Acting Under Secretary Doug O'Brien and others today at Farm Fresh Rhode Island to highlight a recent public-private partnership to...
PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management announces test results from the first mosquitoes trapped this season. Of the 99 mosquito pools collected by DEM staff from 20 traps set statewide on June 10, 67 pools have been confirmed negative for both West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine...
Publication Available at Numerous Venues Throughout RI Including Bait and Tackle Shops, Marine Supply Stores, Town Halls, Chambers of Commerce
PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management announces the publication of the first annual Rhode Island Recreational Saltwater Fishing Guide,...
PROVIDENCE – Safe boating patrols will be stepped up on June 28 to June 30 in a joint operation conducted by the Department of Environmental Management's Division of Law Enforcement and US Coast Guard Units from Castle Hill and Point Judith. The effort is part of Operation Dry Water, a...
Training Sessions to Be Held in June and July; Tree Surveys to be held in August in Arcadia Management Area, Goddard Memorial State Park, and on Conservation Land in Cumberland
PROVIDENCE - Through a cooperative effort with the USDA and Animal Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS), the...
PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management's Division of Agriculture reports that strawberry season is underway in Rhode Island. Now through late June, locally-grown strawberries will be available at numerous pick-your-own berry farms throughout the state.
DEM Director Janet Coit...
Residents Advised to Temporarily Refrain from Contact Recreation Along the Woonasquatucket River
PROVIDENCE—The Department of Environmental Management is investigating a disinfection system failure at the Smithfield Wastewater Treatment Facility which resulted in the discharge of an estimated...
Birds from This Flock were Sold to Pet Shops in North Kingstown and Narragansett
PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management has confirmed the presence of a disease known as psittacosis in a privately-owned flock of psittacine birds in Pawtucket. Psittacine birds are parrots and...
Public Advised to Vaccinate Pets and Stay Away from Wildlife
PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management has received positive confirmation of rabies in a baby raccoon that was found in Coventry and submitted for testing on June 4. The animal was initially found on May 29 on John...
