At its annual meeting held recently at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Mass., The New England Wild Flower Society presented the Rhode Island State Award for Conserving Native Plants and Their Habitats to Peter Lockwood of Smithfield for dedicated, extensive and precise studies of the flora of Rhode Island, leading to the discovery of new rare and endangered species. He has contributed his skills to the Rhode Island Association of Wetland Scientists, the Rhode Island Natural History Survey and the Rhode Island Task Force of New England Plant Conservation Program, the society said.

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