Stewardship staff and volunteers devoted nearly forty hours this past Saturday to restoring native trees and shrubs to a portion of the Parke Memorial Preserve in North Stonington. The banks of the sluiceway were planted with sweetspire, nine bark,…
Last Saturday’s roadside cleanup at Avalonia’s Pike Marshall Preserve in Ledyard was an unmitigated success, measured in volume of garbage removed and, just as importantly, fellowship created! Three hardy souls from Avalonia's Ledyard Town Committee braved the unseasonably cold (…
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Avalonia Land Conservancy (ALC) are looking for shorebird steward volunteers at Sandy Point Island! Together, the USFWS and ALC manage the Island for migrating shorebirds such as piping plovers, American oystercatchers, and least…
Between stockpiling seeds, transplanting vulnerable saplings, and propagating plants in makeshift greenhouses and along windowsills, the expertise and generosity of Avalonia’s volunteers gives our small-scale restoration projects a botanical jumpstart. This type of work is critical and yet often goes…
Our passive listening devices recorded several species of ground-nesting birds last spring in the Preston Nature Preserve. Since many of these are birds of conservation concern, we are trying something new and are closing the Preserve to visitors for this…
As a stalwart consumer of the USDA Climate Hub educational webinars, I was enthralled by the recent Forest Dwelling Bat Conservation panel discussion. With shifting focus between Tri-colored, Eastern Red, and Northen long-eared bats, among others, it was an incredibly…
Something of a Valentine’s week tradition, on February 11th, Director of Stewardship, Tobias Glaza, spoke with Yale’s School of the Environment students about Avalonia’s role in the “Perpetual Obligation: Land Trust Stewardship”. As a part of the Strategies in Land…
While I hesitate to say that there is ever a “slow “period for Avalonia stewardship, with the completion of the annual monitoring of our preserves and conservation easements, we have been able to catch our breath, although with the recent…
The Southeastern New England Educational and Charitable Foundation (SNEC) has again generously funded Avalonia's summer-long internship program. This will be an opportunity for students, enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs in natural sciences, environmental studies, land conservation, or related…
This coming spring many of us who hike the Avalonia preserves from Bozrah, to Griswold, south to the coast and in between will be keeping our eyes peeled for evidence of the Eastern screech-owl (Megascops asio), a small cavity nesting…
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