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  • Earthfest 2023

    Earthfest CT

    Avalonia is taking part in this year's Earthfest CT! Join us on Saturday, May 13 from 11 am - 4 pm at McCook Point Park in Niantic. We'll be celebrating…

  • Sheets Family Forest

    Stewardship Opportunity with Avalonia & Reforest the Tropics

    Sheets Family Forest Puttker Road, North Stonington, CT, United States

    Reforest The Tropics and Avalonia are seeking volunteers for a morning of environmental service at Herman E. Sheets Family Forest in North Stonington, Connecticut. Activities include tree planting, trail maintenance, and invasive species removal. Volunteers are asked to bring sturdy gloves and perhaps a tool of choice (loppers, handsaws, pruners). The event will start at…

  • Knotweed Removal from Shunock River Complex

    The recent late-season frost, while not a friend to the Spring gardeners amongst us, has turned out to be an ally in the management of Japanese knotweed. You may have noticed patches of it along the roadsides withered or stressed from the cold snap.  Perfectly timed, as we typically do a Spring cutting and removal…

  • Cedar Wood Preserve

    Hike Cedar Wood Preserve

    Cedar Wood Preserve 180 North Wawecus Hill Rd., Norwich, CT, United States

    CT TRAILS DAY EVENT: This year, Avalonia’s is hosting three events during the annual Connecticut Trails Day event.  This hike is at one of Avalonia’s newest acquisitions and only Norwich property, Cedar Wood Preserve —47 acres of field, woods, and water. This 1.4-mile hike goes through an upper trail with open fields and good birding opportunities and through a lower forested trail. This will be a moderate hike with some hills/slopes…

  • Herman E. Sheets Family Forest

    Double Stroll Through The Herman E. Sheets Family Forest

    Sheets Family Forest Puttker Road, North Stonington, CT, United States

    CT TRAILS DAY EVENT: This year, Avalonia’s is hosting three events during the annual Connecticut Trails Day event.  This event is an adventure at The Herman E. Sheets Family Forest, an 87-acre picturesque preserve that lies adjacent to the Green Fall River which opened last year. It's a mixed forest with ponds and brooks to be…

  • Henne Preserve

    Beavers, Bird Calls, and Brilliant Bugs

    Babcock Ridge 113 Babcock Road, North Stonington, CT, United States

    CT TRAILS DAY EVENT: This year, Avalonia’s is hosting three events during the annual Connecticut Trails Day event.  Join Avalonia naturalist Bruce Fellman for this special family-friendly exploration of two adjoining refuges (Babcock Ridge and D.R. Henne Memorial & Shunock Brook Preserves), which are among the Conservancy’s most ecologically diverse preserves. Accompanying us on this…

  • White Oak Restoration – A Second Day of Planting

    Sheets Family Forest Puttker Road, North Stonington, CT, United States

    If you weren't able to make it to last month's white oak planting, you have another chance! On Monday June 12th we've planned a morning of environmental restoration at Herman E. Sheets Family Forest in North Stonington, Connecticut. We will focus on planting, protecting, and watering approximately 50 white oak seedling.   Volunteers are asked to…

  • Morning work, Monday June 26th, at our model climate resilient forest, the Hoffman Preserve, in Stonington

    Hoffman Evergreen Preserve 580-632 CT-201, Stonington, CT, United States

    In 2018 Avalonia initiated a climate resiliency forestry plan at this preserve, including the planting of many tree species projected to do well in the face of ongoing climate change. While most of these have succeeded in becoming established, we do need to help them out by cutting back surrounding vegetation, including grey birch suckers…

  • CLCC Community Engagement Award Celebration at Cedar Wood Preserve

    Cedar Wood Preserve 180 North Wawecus Hill Rd., Norwich, CT, United States

    Join us for a ceremony honoring Avalonia Land Conservancy for winning the Connecticut Land Conservation Council’s 2023 Excellence in Community Engagement Award. Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 12 PM at Cedar Wood Preserve in Norwich, CT Rain Date: Sunday, July 9 at 12:00 PM The ceremony, co-sponsored by Avalonia Land Conservancy and the Connecticut Land Conservation Council, will feature brief statements by…