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Collectively, the six women spend a considerable amount of their professional and personal time along Rhode Island’s coast, so their answers to the question proved revealing.
Anywhere there is colorful salt marsh. Prudence Island. Matunuck. Napatree Point. Point Judith Pond. Sachuest Point. Emilie Ruecker Wildlife Refuge.
Pam Rubinoff
As Pam Rubinoff, a coastal resilience specialist with Rhode Island Sea Grant and the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island, noted, most if not all of their answers to the question What is your favorite spot along the Rhode Island coast? revolved around the natural word. The only real mention of a human-made feature was the Cliff Walk in Newport.
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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.
A portion of the rendering submitted by the applicant to Seekonk officials.
A proposed asphalt plant in Seekonk close to the Rhode Island border is drawing increased opposition ahead of a key meeting on Wednesday.
According to those opposed, the plant proposed for 45 Industrial Court in Seekonk located off Route which the Seekonk Board of Selectmen will discuss at their meeting on Wednesday, affects “two states and five towns Seekonk, Swansea, Rehoboth, Barrington, and East Providence.”GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
International Paving Corporation submitted their detailed proposal for the project at the town’s January 12 meeting see here.