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Birding in the Panama Highlands

Panama is a birders paradise. Approximately the size of South Carolina, Panama has close to 1,000 species of bird compared with 914 bird species in all of North America. Being a land bridge between Central and South America, Panama has an amazing diversity of resident tropical birds, while hundreds of species of neotropical migrants overwinter in the country.

What are Those Bugs on Our Trees? How to Build Tree Resiliency & Health

Are those insects on your trees good or bad? Are some of them killing your trees? Explore the natives, non-natives, and invasives - both trees and insects - in our Rhode Island landscapes with Alana Russell, a research entomologist and manager of the URI BioControl Lab. Learn the actions you can take to counteract and prevent insect pests and invasive trees. Find out what Rhode Island and URI are doing to combat invasives and support the health of our trees.

Managing Trees for Trending Climate Change

John Campanini, technical director of the RI Tree Council, will present a program that covers the following topics.
- Native, Non-Native and Invasive Trees: The How-Tos and Why-To's. How to identify an invasive tree. How and why to remove an invasive tree.
- Biodiversity of Trees: Strength in Numbers. Why is biodiversity of trees in our community important? Does that biodiversity include non-invasive, non-native trees? How can each person participate in providing biodiversity of trees?

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