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- Organization News, Preserves
Above: A large chestnut oak sits high on a ridge on Avalonia’s 409-acre TriTown Forest Preserve. The oak is but one example of the unusual flora and fauna found on…
- 50th Anniversary, Organization News
Avalonia Land Conservancy celebrated its 50th anniversary last week at Mystic Aquarium’s Great Hall. Photos and videos illustrating fifty years of volunteer land conservation were on display around the exhibit…
- 50th Anniversary, Stewardship & Volunteering
Members, donors and volunteers that helped Avalonia over the years. (13 minutes)
- In the News, Preserves
read article with ricentral.com (by Bruce Fellman) photo by Bruce Fellman
- In the News, Preserves
read article with Hartford Courant (by Peter Marteka) photo by Beth Sullivan
- In the News, Organization News, Preserves
read article with The Day (by Martha Shanahan) photo: Avalonia board members examine a colonial foundation on one of their potential acquisitions.
- Organization News
It’s membership time! Avalonia has launched its membership drive for 2018. We need you more than ever. Your involvement is invaluable to us, particularly at a time when the environment…
- Organization News
Avalonia Land Conservancy, Inc., has been awarded three grants from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s (DEEP) Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition (OSWLA) program totaling $945,750. DEEP…
- Organization News
The members, staff, and board of directors of the Avalonia Land Conservancy were saddened to learn of the passing of David McKain on December 27th after a long affliction with…
- In the News, Organization News, Preserves
read article with The Bulletin (by Anna Maria Della Costa)
- Organization News
As a supporter of Avalonia Land Conservancy, you are the first line of defense – sometimes the ONLY line of defense – for our shorelines, waterways, woodland corridors, and the…
- Organization News, Preserves, Projects
Avalonia Land Conservancy is very pleased to announce that a $55,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Long Island Sound Future’s Fund will be used to develop and…
- In the News, Preserves
read article with Hartford Courant (by Peter Marteka)
- In the News
The families of Avalonia Land Conservancy were sad to learn that Lois Tefft Van Deusen passed away on September 21, 2017. Lois was a founder and incorporator of the Mashantucket…
- FYI
Connecticut is losing about 3,700 acres of forest a year to development and New England as a whole is seeing its woodlands disappear at a rate of 65 acres a…
- Organization News
Avalonia is approaching 100 properties in total. Our new acquisition campaign will insure that our perpetual endowment fund is adequate for existing and future properties. Avalonia received a second $25,000 contribution…
- Stewardship & Volunteering
For a land trust the acquisition of new land to preserve and protect is exciting. But once we have acquired the land the hard work of stewardship begins. All boundaries…
- In the News, Preserves
Some good news! According to this article in the Westerly Sun by Cynthia Drummond, this year’s butterfly season has been a “banner year” for monarchs. To learn why the monarch’s numbers…
- Organization News, Preserves
Avalonia Land Conservancy will be launching a 5-year capital campaign to finance the acquisition of over 2,000 acres of high conservation-value land in southeastern Connecticut. That process began early this…
- Organization News, Preserves
Thanks to a passion for the environment and a longtime friendship between two local families, Avalonia Land Conservancy has received a gift of land in Stonington. The 28-acre gift is…