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…
Story and photos by Gail Kahover A group of Stonington High School students spent a sunny morning last Friday helping clean out winter’s debris at Avalonia’s Copp’s Brook Preserve. The 18 students and two teachers removed invasive plants at the…
The Southeastern New England Educational and Charitable Foundation (SNEC) has generously funded Avalonia's first summer-long internship. This will be an opportunity for a student, enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program in natural sciences, environmental studies, land conservation, or…
At the Connecticut Land Conservation Council’s annual conference on Saturday March 23, Director of Stewardship, Tobias Glaza, and Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation’s Environmental Liaison, Rahiem Eleazer, were co-panelist in a workshop focused on the intersection of Indigenous stewardship, cultural practices,…
Avalonia’s Stewardship Team has been fortunate this winter to be able to offer two short-term project-based internships. These are designed to give an introduction into the fundamentals of environmental conservation, as well as to provide critical assistance to Avalonia in…
In conjunction with the Yale School of the Environment course ‘Strategies for Land Conservation,’ graduate students Jake Barker and Nasra Mohamed are working with Avalonia to help develop an easy-to-use invasive plant prioritization tool. Over the course of the spring…
The extreme flooding events of last December and earlier this January have put Avalonia’s watershed protection efforts in stark relief. Now, more than ever, preserving and restoring habitat, protecting riparian buffers and natural water flow, and properly siting and stewarding…
If the turnout at our most recent stewardship event at Hoffman Preserve is any measure, it is safe to say that there remains a high degree of interest in and commitment to the climate resiliency efforts initiated there in 2018.…
The longer shadows and dipping temperatures of late fall and winter mean that it is time for, among other things, managing our meadows and fields. Avalonia staff, volunteers, and contractors maintain nearly 80 acres of fields across the Conservancy's various…
The lifeblood of Avalonia has always been the passion and commitment of its volunteers! This is no more evident than in the realm of stewardship where we rely on volunteers to maintain trails, monitor properties, and engage in a variety…
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