Please join us Saturday morning, October 26th from 9:00 -11:00 at Avalonia’s Barrett Preserve in Ledyard and be a part of our efforts at managing this beautiful 70+ acre preserve! Whether you are new to Avalonia or a longtime volunteer this will be chance to get acquainted with (or reacquainted with) some of the…
We would like to invite you to join us from 9-12 Sunday, October 27th at the nearly 160 acre Glemboski-Ous Preserve to assist Avalonia's stewardship team in light maintenance of an existing trail system. As we traverse the old logging roads, cross and, in some cases, follow the wending Trading Cove Brook, and pass through…
Join us Sunday morning, November 10th from 9:00 -12:00 at Avalonia’s Cedar Wood Preserve in Norwich and be a part of our efforts at managing this beautiful nearly 50-acre preserve! Whether you are new to Avalonia or a longtime volunteer this will be chance to get acquainted with (or reacquainted with) some of the…
Join us Sunday morning, November 24, from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm at Tefftweald at Birchenturn in North Stonington. This nearly 80-acre preserve, a former Girl Scout Camp, boasts forested uplands and wetlands, more than 2000 feet of frontage along Wyassup Brook, a woodland meadow, beaver pond, the historic Bell/York cemetery, and numerous foundations and…
Calling all Avalonia members and their friends! You are encouraged to attend a public forum on the design of a highly accessible trail at Cedar Wood Preserve in Norwich. Part of Avalonia’s comprehensive accessibility initiative, this event will feature landscape architect Chad Frost of Kent+Frost, who will present his provisional design. No advance registration is…
Join us for Avalonia’s Annual Members Meeting on Sunday, December 8 from 3 pm – 5 pm at the La Grua Center in Stonington Borough. Catch up with friends while you hear what Avalonia’s been up to, and what we have planned for 2025. Light refreshments will be served. Unfortunately, this event is…
Honor Lawler, Trust for Public Land (TPL) Project Manager, will present a review of the work TPL, a frequent Avalonia collaborator, does across Connecticut, including projects in the State’s distressed municipalities. Accessibility Note: One on-street accessible parking space, plus additional accessible parking across the street on the upper level of parking garage. Building is highly accessible…
There’s no better way to celebrate the arrival of spring than to visit a woodland pond alive with the sounds and sights of newly awakened amphibians and invertebrates—and there’s no more exciting time to do so than at dusk, when the local vernal pools are a noisy chorus of quacking wood frogs and bell-ringing spring…
Please consider joining Avalonia Stewardship staff and volunteers on the morning of March 29th from 9:00 -12:00 at our Hunter Brook Preserve in Norwich and be a part of our larger efforts at enhancing wildlife habitat on this beautiful 27-acre preserve! For this first phase, work will consist of implementing recommendations associated with the…
Mark your calendars! Avalonia's 2025 Photo Contest is in the works, and we wanted to make sure you have ample time to take and submit images. Participants will be asked to submit photos in one or all three categories, soon to be announced. The contest will run April 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025 For…