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Durfee Hill Management Area in Glocester is a playground for wildlife


Dogs: Allowed, but must be leashed.
Maps: On an information board at the trailhead.
Difficulty: Easy to moderate, with some small hills.
GLOCESTER Man-made ponds pop up almost everywhere in rural Rhode Island.
Farmers built them to irrigate crops and water livestock. Millers dammed brooks and channeled the backed-up water to grind grain in grist mills. Fire wardens and landowners filled reservoirs to protect property in remote areas. Conservationists constructed earthen dikes across streams to create habitats for wildlife and waterfowl.
Each of the ponds you find in the woods has a unique story about how it was formed and for what purpose. ....

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Walking RI: Bite-size hikes you can take on your lunch hour


Here are two that offer different experiences, as well as some Native American history.
Osamequin Nature Preserve, Barrington  
Access: Off Route 195, drive 4.5 miles south on Route 114. Use a turnaround to get on Route 114 north and the lot is on the right.
Parking: Available.
Difficulty: Easy
BARRINGTON Ospreys, egrets and deep, dark holes dug by fiddler crabs in the mud flats are among the sights you can see from the trails along the west shore of the Barrington River’s Hundred Acre Cove in the Osamequin Nature Preserve.
Osamequin, or Massasoit Ousamequin, was chief in the 1600s of the Pokanoket tribe of the Wampanoag Nation, who lived on the land called Sowams that stretched from Providence to Bristol. The preserve, managed by the Barrington Land Conservation Trust, gives walkers an idea of what the estuary habitats, coastal marshes, plants and wildlife looked like 400 years ago. ....

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