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2/10/2021
Wood duck boxes installed at local pond
Josh Johnson, left, John Sanna, center, and Angel Conroy installing a wood duck box at Valley Falls Pond on Jan. 31. The boxes will provide shelter and protection for the colorful waterfowl.
John Sanna has waited five years for the right weather conditions to freeze the ice enough at Valley Falls Pond so that he could go out and install wood duck boxes, and on Sunday, Jan. 31, the Cumberland native saw his opportunity.
Along with several family members, Sanna installed seven of these boxes, meant to provide shelter for wood ducks, which thrive in swamps and marshes, at the pond located at the border of Lincoln, Cumberland, and Central Falls. Last week he said he was hoping to get back out and install more boxes in Cumberland but wasn’t sure if the ice would be too thin for him to do it safely.
We ve been spending more time outdoors and getting in each other’s space, with heated results.
February 9, 2021
Standing on her driveway in South Kingstown, Margaret Bucheit points to a stone wall less than 200 feet away that marks the boundary of the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge. Its proximity is worrisome to Bucheit and her neighbors because the refuge will be allowing bowhunting in the adjacent woodlands for the first time beginning next fall, and the prospect makes them feel unsafe.
While she doesn’t object to hunting her husband, William Ohley, frequently hunts with a long-bow she has witnessed poachers in clandestine hunting stands and drunk hunters in areas that have been closed to hunting since the refuge was established in 1973.