Join us 11/4/23 for a Tour of Sowams Meadow Preserve

Sowman Meadow Preserve is a 26 acre wetland habitat along the Palmer River in Warren, RI and has been undergoing a restoration project over the last few years. Come see the work that has been done to restore this coastal buffer at our tour on November 4, 2023 at 10:00AM. Click here for more information and to register.

All are welcome to this free, kid friendly tour to learn about the ecology of our region and the role coastal buffers play in our environment. We ask you to please RSVP through this Eventbrite page, but welcome you to come if you did not register.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service is partnering with the Warren Land Conservation Trust, Save the Bay, and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management's (RIDEM) Mosquito Abatement Program to restore salt marshes, freshwater wetlands and coastal buffers on the eastern side of the Palmer River in Warren, RI - including Sowam Meadow Preserve.

Restoration activities are taking place on abandoned agricultural fields, a freshwater/ brackish wetland adjacent to the marsh, upland buffer, and salt marsh. Through the project, partners are mowing brush, clearing invasive plants, removing dead trees, seeding pollinator plants and planting native trees.

When the Massasoit Ousamequin (Yellow Feather) of the Pokanoket Nation first met the Pilgrims in what is now Plymouth, MA in 1621, he was living forty miles to the southwest in an area known as Sowams. While Massasoit presided over a network of tribes extending from just south of present-day Boston to Bristol, RI and from the Atlantic coast to present day Providence, RI., the area he chose for his home was along the Providence, Runnins, Ten-Mile, Barrington, Warren, Kickemuit, Palmer and Coles Rivers.