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- Accessibility, In the News, Organization News
Big News! Avalonia has received a $26,000 award from the State’s competitive Recreational Trails Grants Program. The award will fund most of the $32,000 cost of a design plan for…
- Accessibility
By Elanah Sherman On March 23 at the CT Land Conservation Council’s Annual Conference, I offered a presentation I called “Opening Spaces.” The event would address several different ways of…
- Community, Events
On Saturday, May 18, Avalonia joined 28 other conservation organizations at Earthfest at McCook’s Park in Niantic, CT. This children-friendly event featured music, live animals, and lots of fun activities.…
- Community, Stewardship & Volunteering
The Rotary of the Stoningtons held their “Day of Service” on May 18th, and generously donated their time to Stonington’s Dodge Paddock/Beal Preserve in Stonington Borough. They joined…
- Preserves
The Yannatos Preserve off Clark Falls Road in North Stonington will be closed from Wednesday 5/22 to Sunday 5/26 for improvements to the parking area. For your safety and the…
- Intern, Stewardship & Volunteering
Avalonia is pleased to welcome Lili Kane as our new summer Land Stewardship Intern. A Groton native, Lili is a rising senior at UConn with a major in Ecology and…
- Community, Organization News
By Elanah Sherman Last month’s Opening Spaces described information templates for hikes. This month, we consider templates for indoor events. In addition to facts about parking and communication, this template…
- Community, Events
It started as a rainy Saturday morning but that didn’t deter all the incredible vendors and visitors who showed up for the Groton Earth Day Expo Fair at the Groton…
- Community, Programs, Support
We are excited to share that, for the entire month of May, Avalonia has been selected by store leadership to benefit from Big Y’s Community Bag Program, which makes it…
- Community, Preserves, Stewardship & Volunteering
Story and photos by Gail Kahover A group of Stonington High School students spent a sunny morning last Friday helping clean out winter’s debris at Avalonia’s Copp’s Brook Preserve. The…
- Community, Organization News
By Elanah Sherman One of Avalonia’s first accessibility efforts was to develop an information template that would inform potential participants of conditions at events, in addition to the basic event…
- In the News, Organization News, Programs, Stewardship & Volunteering
The Southeastern New England Educational and Charitable Foundation (SNEC) has generously funded Avalonia’s first summer-long internship. This will be an opportunity for a student, enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate…
- Community, Programs, Support
In April, Avalonia gets $1 for every Community Bag purchased at the Route 12 Groton Stop & Shop. Spring into the new season with a community bag! This April, every…
- In the News, Preserves
Avalonia Land Conservancy, Inc. has purchased an important conservation property from the Glemboski-Ous family of 159.42 acres in Bozrah and Montville. This also abuts the Nature Conservancy’s 343-acre Milo Light…
- In the News, Stewardship & Volunteering
At the Connecticut Land Conservation Council’s annual conference on Saturday March 23, Director of Stewardship, Tobias Glaza, and Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation’s Environmental Liaison, Rahiem Eleazer, were co-panelist in a…
- Projects, Stewardship & Volunteering, Volunteer Profiles
Avalonia’s Stewardship Team has been fortunate this winter to be able to offer two short-term project-based internships. These are designed to give an introduction into the fundamentals of environmental conservation,…
- Organization News
Our Avalonia Trails Spring 2024 Edition is now available.
- Community, In the News, Preserves, Projects
A forum on March 7 to introduce the public to Avalonia’s plan for an accessible trail at Cedar Wood Preserve in Norwich was attended by a crowd both appreciative and…
- Projects, Stewardship & Volunteering, Uncategorized
In conjunction with the Yale School of the Environment course ‘Strategies for Land Conservation,’ graduate students Jake Barker and Nasra Mohamed are working with Avalonia to help develop an easy-to-use…
- Community
By Elizabeth Sorensen On a chilly morning in January, Janet Anderson hosted members of the Groton Town Committee, along with Joan Smith of Groton Open Spaces and Laurie Whiting…