Hikes
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Hike a Wildlife Habitat Restoration at Leo Antonino Preserve
Leo Antonino Preserve 0 Antonino Road, GrotonCT TRAILS DAY EVENT: We’ll hike the Leo Antonino Preserve through forested areas, past active brooks, vernal pools, and up a bedrock ridge. There is a go-around for those who want to avoid the scramble up the ridge. We will pass next to erratics deposited by the glaciers and see how the Earth’s crust has…
Honoring Earth Day with a Wild Flora Walk at the Benedict Benson Preserve
Benedict Benson Preserve Swantown Hill Road, North StoningtonLed by Avalonia naturalist Bruce Fellman, trek through the Benedict Benson Preserve to watch its uplands, centerpiece stream, and wetlands come to life with greening ferns, mosses, and wildflowers, from the rare Hepatica to the ubiquitous marsh marigolds. REGISTER HERE One of the critical precursors of the passage of the Clean Water Act,…
Vernal Pool Adventure at Babcock Ridge – CANCELLED
Babcock Ridge 113 Babcock Road, North StoningtonCANCELLED DUE TO WIND AND RAIN. NEW DATE TBD. There’s no better way to celebrate the arrival of spring than to visit a woodland pond alive with the sights and sounds of newly awakened amphibians and invertebrates — and there’s no more exciting time to do so than at dusk when the local vernal…