Fall 2025 Newsletter
Our Avalonia Trails Fall 2025 Edition is now available.
Founders Preserve’s Colonel Ledyard Highway Parking Area and Entrance Closed October 9-10
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 late Friday 10/10. We apologize for any temporary inconvenience. As…
Welcome to Caitlyn Angeletti, our latest intern for fall 2025!
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 will assist us in the research and writing of Natural…
Avalonia’s SNEC funded Land Stewardship Interns complete their summer 2025 tenure
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 monitoring to restoration work to boundary posting and bridge building,…
A Big Move + Makeover
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 special is the incredible support of our volunteers. They arrived…
Systematically Learning About Our Preserves
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 widely diverse group of Avalonia preserves. This has included using…
Exciting Improvements to Infrastructure across Avalonia!
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 half, we have been uncommonly busy, with the initiation of…
Safety First: Wear Bright Colors on Trails
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 that wearing bright colors is a good way to be…
Moving 300 pounds of reinforced concrete through the woods…..a more than fair tradeoff for enhanced safety on our preserves!
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 with the ecological values we strive to conserve. Inventorying these,…
Mystic Aquarium Interns Help Tame the Jungle at Pequotsepos Brook Preserve
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 "yellow" trails and spurs. Several STC members, Kathy Weinberger, Mark…