Spring has sprung and it’s time to clean up the trails!  If you are itching to get outside, we have multiple opportunities to help clear the trails, remove invasives, plant trees, and more.   Stewardship activities will be on Saturday, April 13.  Times and activities may vary by location – see below for preserve locations and details. 

In general, bring gloves, bug spray, drinking water and task appropriate hand tools  (if you have them.)  If you don’t have them, that is OK – we try to have extras.  

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Griswold

• Date: Saturday April 13, 2024 
• Location: Dutka Nature Preserve  (Dutka Lane parking lot immediately off Bethel Road on right-hand side)
• Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
• Activity: Trail work and trash pick up
• What to Bring: Work clothes, work boots, work gloves, loppers, hand saws, Gloves, bug spray, water, loppers and handsaws
• Leader: Dick Conant (contact details will be sent out to registrants)

Groton

• Date: Saturday April 13, 2024
• Location: Leo Antonino Preserve (parking along Antonino Road).
• Time: 9:00 am -12:00 pm
• Activity: Brush and branches clean up (Spring Cleanup)
• What to Bring: Gloves, bug spray, water, loppers
• Leader: Bonnie Castellani (contact details will be sent out to registrants)

North Stonington 

• Date: Saturday April 13, 2024 (rain date Sunday April 14)
• Location: Herman E. Sheets Family Forest (parking area adjacent to the mailbox  for 94 Puttker Road). Carpool if possible.
• Time: 9:00 am -12:00 pm
• Activity: Planting of white and red oak seedlings- for more detail click here.
• What to Bring: Gloves, bug spray, water, shovel/spade/other planting implements
• Leader: Tobias Glaza (contact details will be sent out to registrants)

Stonington

• Date: Saturday April 13, 2024
• Location: Knox Preserve (parking on the north side of Wilcox Road)
• Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm 
• Activity: Clearing vegetation from stone walls  
• What to Bring: work gloves, hand tools (pruners, clippers or loppers – pls mark your own tools), and water
• Leader: Beth Sullivan, Susan Hibbard, MaryEllen Mateleska  (contact details will be sent out to registrants)

Ledyard

• Date: Saturday April 13, 2024
• Location: Samuel Lamb and Forsberg Preserve (parking along Town Farm Road)
• Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm 
• Activity: Clearing vegetation from stone walls. 
• Description:  This is a continuation of work done during a similar event in late February.
• What to Bring: Gloves, water bottle, hand saw and/or loppers, tick repellant.  Poison ivy may be present, so, in addition to gloves, long sleeves recommended
• Leader: Laurie Gorham (contact details will be sent out to registrants)

Register here!