Third Annual Stewardship Day – Saturday April 13, 2024
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…
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White and Red Oak Planting at the Herman E. Sheets Family Forest
Sheets Family Forest Puttker Road, North Stonington, CT, United StatesJoin us from 9-12 Saturday April 13th in North Stonington at the Herman E. Sheets Family Forest to help plant bare root oak seedlings! This spring we begin the second…
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Introduction to Stewardship at our Newest Preserve, Glemboski-Ous in Bozrah and Montville
Glemboski-Ous Preserve South Road, Bozrah, United StatesMemorial Day weekend isn't complete without an opportunity to stretch your legs and to enjoy the onset of late Spring/early Summer in the woods! We would like to invite you to join us from 9-12 Sunday, May 26th at the nearly 160 acre Glemboski-Ous Preserve to learn more about how Avalonia, with the help of…
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Trail-Clearing Work Party at Glemboski-Ous
Glemboski-Ous Preserve South Road, Bozrah, United StatesJoin Avalonia's Northern town committee at our newest preserve, Glemboski-Ous, in Bozrah on Sunday, June 9 to help us clear some of the trails. As a follow-up to the Introduction…
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Wequetequock Cove Clean Water Coalition Festival
Avalonia will join other organizations and core communities on Sunday July 14 for the Wequetequock Cove Clean Water Coalition (WCCWC) Festival! Funded in part through a grant from the Long Island Sound Stewardship Fund, this free festival is designed to engage the local community, recruit members for the WCCWC, and provide education about the watershed. …
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Phish and the Waterwheel Foundation to Clear Trails at Glemboski-Ous Preserve
Glemboski-Ous Preserve South Road, Bozrah, United StatesThe Waterwheel Foundation is kicking off a new round of hands-on volunteer opportunities at certain Phish Summer Tour stops — and Avalonia made the list! Join us on Wednesday, July…
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Knotweed Management at Shunock River Complex
Please join Avalonia stewardship staff, intern, and volunteers at the Parke Memorial Preserve, in North Stonington, on Wednesday July 31 at 9:00 to help manage an infestation of Japanese Knotweed. We have been following the Nix the Knotweed management protocols at this preserve and it is time for the second cutting of Japanese knotweed for the year ( I know, we are a bit behind schedule)! We plan to meet at the…
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Short Notice Stewardship Opportunity- Japanese Barberry Removal at Avalonia’s Pine Swamp Wildlife Corridor in Ledyard
You are invited to join us this Saturday August 31 from 9-11am as we work to manage a Japanese barberry infestation at our Pine Swamp Wildlife Corridor. Many hands will make light work and together it is expected that we will make significant progress in controlling this invasive plant species. Plans are to hand pull…
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Stewardship and Trail walk at the Glemboski-Ous Preserve in Bozrah and Montville
Glemboski-Ous Preserve South Road, Bozrah, United States...an opportunity to enjoy the beautiful post-Labor Day autumnal weather... We would like to invite you to join us from 9-12 Sunday, September 15th at the nearly 160 acre Glemboski-Ous Preserve to assist Avalonia's stewardship team in posting our preserve boundaries, light trail maintenance, and blazing/marking our existing trail system. As we traverse the old…
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Help to Build Screech-Owl Nesting Boxes
First Congregational Church, Norwich , CT 81 East Town Street, Norwich, CT, United StatesAs part of a Girl Scout Gold Award Project, you are invited you to join in with other members of the community to assist in building a total of 20 screech-owl nesting boxes. The event will take place on the evening of September 16 from 6:00-7:30 at the First Congregational Church in Norwich and has…