PROVIDENCE - With the trout fishing season opening on Saturday, April 14, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is reminding anglers – particularly those fishing from a boat – to exercise personal safety precautions while in pursuit of their first trout of the season....
Improvements at Echo Lake boat ramp slated for next fall
PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announces that construction of freshwater boat ramp improvements will begin on April 16 at Watchaug Pond in Charlestown and Indian Lake in South Kingstown.
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PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources (OER) are joining six other Northeast states and automakers in a new initiative to increase electric car use throughout the Northeast. The 'Drive Change. Drive Electric.'...
Some 80,000 hatchery-raised trout stocked in ponds, rivers across state
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced today it is stocking some 80,000 brook, brown, and rainbow trout into Rhode Island ponds and streams in preparation for the freshwater...
Registration for popular program that helps Rhode Islanders save energy, money opens April 2nd
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is teaming up once again with the Arbor Day Foundation, Rhode Island Tree Council, and the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape...
Positions start at $12.25 per hour and are available at all State swimming areas
PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is seeking qualified lifeguards for the summer season at Rhode Island State beaches, parks and campgrounds. Full-time lifeguard positions...
One way to become "bear aware" is removing backyard food sources as hungry black bears emerge from winter hibernation
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) reminds residents to remove potential food sources from their properties as black bears emerge from...
Michael R. Perry, 46, of Warwick had been missing since Jan 12. His unoccupied kayak was found Jan. 14.
PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today is identifying the decedent whose body was found in Narragansett Bay off Barrington March 23 as Michael R....
PROVIDENCE – As part of continued efforts to support growth of the local food economy and in honor of Rhode Island's fishing heritage, Governor Gina M. Raimondo today declared March 26 to April 1, 2018 Quahog Week in Rhode Island. Governor Raimondo joined federal, state and food-industry leaders...
PROVIDENCE – Governor Raimondo – along with Senator Jack Reed, Congressman Jim Langevin, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and other partners – will kick off the 3rd Annual Rhode Island Quahog Week with a special launch event at Save The Bay in Providence on Monday....
