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SUMMARY:Third Annual Stewardship Day - Saturday April 13\, 2024
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nIn 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.   \nRegister here! \nGriswold \n\nDate: Saturday April 13\, 2024 \nLocation: Dutka Nature Preserve  (Dutka Lane parking lot immediately off Bethel Road on right-hand side)\nTime: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm\nActivity: Trail work and trash pick up\nWhat to Bring: Work clothes\, work boots\, work gloves\, loppers\, hand saws\, Gloves\, bug spray\, water\, loppers and handsaws\nLeader: Dick Conant (contact details will be sent out to registrants)\n\nGroton \n\nDate: Saturday April 13\, 2024\nLocation: Leo Antonino Preserve (parking along Antonino Road).\nTime: 9:00 am -12:00 pm\nActivity: Brush and branches clean up (Spring Cleanup)\nWhat to Bring: Gloves\, bug spray\, water\, loppers\nLeader: Bonnie Castellani (contact details will be sent out to registrants)\n\nNorth Stonington  \n\nDate: Saturday April 13\, 2024 (rain date Sunday April 14)\nLocation: Herman E. Sheets Family Forest (parking area adjacent to the mailbox  for 94 Puttker Road). Carpool if possible.\nTime: 9:00 am -12:00 pm\nActivity: Planting of white and red oak seedlings- for more detail click here.\nWhat to Bring: Gloves\, bug spray\, water\, shovel/spade/other planting implements\nLeader: Tobias Glaza (contact details will be sent out to registrants)\n\nStonington \n\nDate: Saturday April 13\, 2024\nLocation: Knox Preserve (parking on the north side of Wilcox Road)\nTime: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm \nActivity: Clearing vegetation from stone walls  \nWhat to Bring: work gloves\, hand tools (pruners\, clippers or loppers – pls mark your own tools)\, and water\nLeader: Beth Sullivan\, Susan Hibbard\, MaryEllen Mateleska  (contact details will be sent out to registrants)\n\nLedyard \n\nDate: Saturday April 13\, 2024\nLocation: Samuel Lamb and Forsberg Preserve (parking along Town Farm Road)\nTime: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm \nActivity: Clearing vegetation from stone walls. \nDescription:  This is a continuation of work done during a similar event in late February.\nWhat 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\nLeader: Laurie Gorham (contact details will be sent out to registrants)\n\nRegister here!
URL:https://avalonia.org/event/third-annual-stewardship-day-saturday-april-13-2024/
LOCATION:CT
CATEGORIES:Stewardship,Volunteering
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SUMMARY:White and Red Oak Planting at the Herman E. Sheets Family Forest
DESCRIPTION:Join us from 9-12 Saturday April 13th in North Stonington at the Herman E. Sheets Family Forest to help plant bare root oak seedlings!\nThis spring we begin the second phase of a larger\, multi-year restoration effort\, in which volunteers\, together with Avalonia staff\, will work to get more than 300 red oak (Quercus rubra) and white oak (Quercus alba) seedlings into the ground.  \nNearly a decade ago\, the combined stressors of Spongy moth and drought served to weaken and ultimately kill many mature stands of oak in the region.  Sadly\, this preserve was no exception.  With natural regeneration being limited\, we instituted a restoration plan\, a part of which includes planting and then protecting seedlings from deer browse. \n \nStaff and volunteers will provide a brief tutorial\, but\, other than that\, no special skill set is needed! Bring a shovel/spade\, gloves\, sturdy footwear\, bug/tick repellant\, and drinking water.  If you don’t have tools\, extras will be available. Work at your own pace\, stay as long as you like\, and consider hiking the beautiful trail system afterwards. \nWe will meet at the Puttker Road parking area (across from 94 Puttker Road) at 9:00 AM and shuttle the short distance from there to a convenient access point.  There is limited off street parking\, so please consider carpooling to the event. Rain date of Sunday April 14. \nThis restoration effort is funded\, in part\, by a generous grant from the North Stonington Garden Club. \nFor more details\, contact Director of Stewardship\, Tobias Glaza at tglaza@avalonialc.org \nP.S.  You will see this opportunity referenced again in the context of a forthcoming Avalonia-wide Stewardship Day post.  
URL:https://avalonia.org/event/white-and-red-oak-planting-at-the-herman-e-sheets-family-forest/
LOCATION:Sheets Family Forest\, Puttker Road\, North Stonington\, CT\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conservation,Stewardship,Volunteering
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