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…
By Conor Feeney During my first few weeks at Avalonia, the focus was primarily on helping to complete the annual monitoring tasks for each preserve. During these site visits, Avalonia makes sure that recognized conservation values are intact and that…
By Susan Hibbard, Stonington Town Committee Chair On November 12, 2025, Stonington Town Committee was able to undertake a long-awaited fencing repair project at Copps Brook Preserve on Al Harvey Road. While STC had previously received a grant from…
Stonington resident Conor Feeney has joined the ranks of Avalonia's interns and will be assisting our stewardship team for the next several months. A graduate from the University of Connecticut class of 2022 with a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary…
With the excitement of over a thousand acres of newly conserved land on the immediate horizon, one might forgive Avalonia’s stewardship team for not sharing more about its recently acquired Erwin and Naomi Goldstein Preserve in Griswold. There is, however, more…
Stewardship is pleased to begin working with another student from Three Rivers Community College Environmental Engineering Technology Program. Join us in welcoming Caitlyn Angeletti to our team this fall. Caitlyn will assist us in the research and writing of Natural…
While the words "exciting" and "infrastructure" are not commonly used together, Avalonia's stewardship once again leans towards the uncommon in both word and deed. Over the last month and a half, we have been uncommonly busy, with the initiation of…
It is no secret that there is a rich cultural heritage that exists both in the landscape, writ large, as well as on Avalonia preserves, a heritage that is intertwined with the ecological values we strive to conserve. Inventorying these,…
On August 7, 2025, the Stonington Town Committee (STC), in conjunction with the Mystic Aquarium, held a much-needed trail maintenance day at Pequotsepos Brook Preserve, covering both the "purple" and "yellow" trails and spurs. Several STC members, Kathy Weinberger, Mark…
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these ....[citizen scientists] from the swift completion of their appointed [iNaturalist] rounds,". OK, so clearly not postal workers and definitely written with a healthy dose of hyperbole, but nonetheless,…