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- Intern, Stewardship & Volunteering
Stonington resident Conor Feeney has joined the ranks of Avalonia’s interns and will be assisting our stewardship team for the next several months. A graduate from the University of Connecticut…
- FYI
OCT 2025 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Tick Alert! The tiny, insidious nymph ticks have emerged in southeastern Connecticut. Take preventive measures to keep yourself safe: Tuck in socks Use repellant Examine…
- Accessibility
By Elanah Sherman, Avalonia board member According to the Sierra Club, the environmental justice movement was a response in the 1980s to the dumping of toxic waste in a…
- Projects
Over the last several weeks Avalonia and Eastern Connecticut Conservation District (ECCD) staff and volunteers have dedicated more than one hundred hours to implementing the first stages of a restoration…
- Preserves, Stewardship & Volunteering
With the excitement of over a thousand acres of newly conserved land on the immediate horizon, one might forgive Avalonia’s stewardship team for not sharing more about its recently acquired…
- Newsletters, Organization News
Our Avalonia Trails Fall 2025 Edition is now available.
- FYI, Preserves
Significant improvements are planned for Founders Preserve’s Colonel Ledyard Highway parking area. This requires that the lot and this entrance be closed, for public safety, from early Thursday 10/9 until…
- Intern, Research, Stewardship & Volunteering
Stewardship is pleased to begin working with another student from Three Rivers Community College Environmental Engineering Technology Program. Join us in welcoming Caitlyn Angeletti to our team this fall. Caitlyn…
- Intern
Our summer interns, funded by Southeastern New England Educational and Charitable Foundation, made an indelible mark on Avalonia’s stewardship efforts during their eleven weeks with us this summer. From annual…
- Community, Organization News
This summer, we relocated from our longtime home in Mystic to a much larger office in Ledyard, CT. The move marked an exciting new chapter, but what makes it truly…
- Community
By Bob Chapin and Beth Sullivan Over the past couple of years, Avalonia members and staff have been trying to collect more actual data about what lives in the…
- Accessibility, Stewardship & Volunteering
While the words “exciting” and “infrastructure” are not commonly used together, Avalonia’s stewardship once again leans towards the uncommon in both word and deed. Over the last month and a…
- FYI
While fall, continuing into winter, is a favorite time to hit the trails for brisk walks in the woods, please remember it is also the beginning of hunting season, and…
- Stewardship & Volunteering
It is no secret that there is a rich cultural heritage that exists both in the landscape, writ large, as well as on Avalonia preserves, a heritage that is intertwined…
- Stewardship & Volunteering
On August 7, 2025, the Stonington Town Committee (STC), in conjunction with the Mystic Aquarium, held a much-needed trail maintenance day at Pequotsepos Brook Preserve, covering both the “purple” and…
- Stewardship & Volunteering
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these ….[citizen scientists] from the swift completion of their appointed [iNaturalist] rounds,”. OK, so clearly not postal workers and…
- Intern, Stewardship & Volunteering
By Dusk Homiski Prior to this summer, I would have told you that I was already somewhat familiar with the Avalonia Land Conservancy. I had hiked many of their preserves,…
- Preserves
The Glemboski-Ous Preserve near Bozrah and Montville was officially opened on Aug. 9, complete with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the first drive over the new bridge by an emergency vehicle. …
- Organization News
The Avalonia Advisory Council held its inaugural meetings this past February and June. Created to bring people representing a broad demographic into the Avalonia fold, the Council now has 19…
- Preserves, Uncategorized
Significant improvements are planned for Tri-town Ridgeline Forest’s Miller Road parking area. This requires that the lot and this entrance be closed, for public safety, from early Tuesday 8/5 until…