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Job Title: Avalonia Land Conservancy Executive Director (ED)- (Full-time exempt) Opening posted: 07/23/2026 | Expires: 10/31/2026 or until position is filled. The Organization: Avalonia Land Conservancy (ALC) is a non-profit…
- Intern, Stewardship & Volunteering
By Amelia Newstadt and Kennedy Holsapple This summer, we have been interning with Avalonia as land stewards, working with staff, other interns and volunteers. This internship is a first for…
- Stewardship & Volunteering
We are excited to welcome Adam Heckle to Avalonia’s stewardship team! Adam brings a wealth of experience, knowledge, and enthusiasm to the full-time land steward position. Among his many duties…
- Events
Nature has a story to tell, and this fall, Avalonia invites you to experience it in new and unexpected ways. From poetry beneath the trees and a twilight walk through…
- Stewardship & Volunteering
On November 12, 2025, the Stonington Town Committee (STC) was able to undertake a long-awaited fencing repair project at Copps Brook Preserve on Al Harvey Road. While STC had previously…
- Accessibility, Community
Avalonia’s new Education and Outreach Committee has been busy throughout southeastern Connecticut, introducing towns and groups to our work and providing educational events that bring new and underserved constituents into…
- Projects, Research, Stewardship & Volunteering
Over the last decade Avalonia has grown in size and earned national accreditation! In order to better understand and care for our burgeoning system of preserves, we are working on…
- Events
The Weekly Wanderers, a joint walking program sponsored by the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center (DPNC) and Avalonia’s Stonington Town Committee, had its inaugural walk on June 19, 2026, at Coogan…
- Stewardship & Volunteering
In an effort to keep hikers safe and the integrity of cultural and stone features intact, stewardship has begun to install new signs on certain of our trailed preserves. At…
- Community, Stewardship & Volunteering
More than a dozen staff, interns, and volunteers converged on Hunter Brook Preserve last Wednesday as part of a longer term project aimed at enhancing wildlife habitat along a riparian…
- Community
On Saturday, April 25, representatives from Avalonia joined dozens of local organizations and community members at the annual Earth Day Expo hosted at the Groton Public Library. The family-friendly event…
- Stewardship & Volunteering
In partnership with Eastern Connecticut Conservation District (ECCD), Avalonia builds off its past success in the restoration of a portion of the Anguilla Brook Northern Headwaters preserve. Last year ECCD…
- Intern, Stewardship & Volunteering
Avalonia is pleased to welcome Kennedy Holsapple and Amelia Newstadt as our new Land Stewardship Interns for the 2026 summer season! This internship program is once again generously sponsored by…
- Stewardship & Volunteering
Photos and Story by Beth Sullivan For the last four years, Stonington High School has sent students throughout the community for a day of service at the end of…
- Preserves
Story and Photos By Susan Hibbard For several years, the Stonington Town Committee (STC) has been noticing trail erosion at Knox Family Farm (KFF), principally due to a…
- Intern, Projects, Stewardship & Volunteering
Congratulations to Yale School of the Environment students, Salma Huque and Jake Frame, on the successful completion of their Strategies for Land Conservation Clinical Project! With their help Avalonia has…
- In the News
This week, Avalonia’s Board of Directors approved a key agreement with the Trust for Public Land to help acquire Camp Laurel in Lebanon. This marks an important milestone in a larger,…
- Community
Story by Amy Storrow How Do You Know You Know a Place? I expected changes, both big and small, when I moved back to Southeastern Connecticut…
- FYI, Preserves, Stewardship & Volunteering
Once again our passive listening devices and in-person surveys have recorded several species of ground-nesting birds this spring in the Preston Nature Preserve. Since many of these are birds of…