"Stewardship volunteers - the ALC stewardship committee needs your input on your activities
on ALC properties.   

Please use the online form at the web address below:
http://jotform.com/form/83103522628
Thanks for your help and the work you do in support of maintaining ALC properties."
STEWARDSHIP
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Avalonia Land Conservancy,Inc.
P.O. Box 49
Old Mystic, CT 06372

(860) 884-3500 or email us at
avalonialc@yahoo.com
EMAIL US AT AVALONIALC@YAHOO.COM TO RECEIVE NOTICE OF WORK PARTIES
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Material needed:  Do you have old pressure treated timber, angle iron,
corrugated drain pipe, sand bags, sand, stone?  Let us know- we'll pick it up
The way Avalonia work parties usually work is
that the respective town committee  organizes
the work party and puts out a plea for help. I
apologize in advance if you receive more than
one notification of work parties.  Some town
committees have their own notification list.  I'll
try to keep notifications from the "Trails Crew"
list to a minimum.  Also, your email address on
this list will be on bcc: so that your privacy is
protected.  If at any time you wish to no longer
receive notifications, just send me an email
and I'll remove you from the yahoo category
list.  There is no need to respond to the
notifications as to whether you will participate
or not unless the email asks for such
notification - just show up if you are interested.

Rick Newton Avalonia Land Conservancy
Stewardship Committee Chairman

Stewardship workdays: List of stewardship activities that have not
been completed (to be scheduled as town
committees see fit):


Future work parties (details to be provided later):


Oct 22 (Rain date Oct 23) - Ledyard.  To be determined.
Oct 22 - Groton - Anderson Marsh - Noank Rd. 10 AM - removal of
invasives and brush.  Groton Town Committee.

If there are any current or retired Pfizer employees on the volunteer
list - the Pfizer Foundation has a volunteer recognition program that
will donate $1000 to an organization for which a Pfizer employee or
retiree works 72 hours per year as a volunteer. Deadline to submit
application is November 30th. (If you need the application form
please let us know).



 Ledyard - Oct 22 (Rain date Oct 23) - To be determined – Mike
Goodwinleader
 Wyassup Lake Preserve – North Stonington - autumn olive,
hemlock & red maple / removal of spruce tree.
 Barrett Preserve – Ledyard – tree cutting in field
 Cranberry Pond – Ledyard – boundary posting / remove
invasives by hand
 Haley Brook – Ledyard – re-sign boundary with Avalonia signs
 Berwick #1 – Ledyard – boundary posting
 Berwick #2 – Ledyard – boundary posting
 Greenman Preserve (East & West) – Ledyard – boundary posting
 Avery East - Ledyard – boundary posting /Blowdown on east
tract needs chainsaw for removal. Mashantucket signs need to be
swapped out.
 Moore Woodlands – Groton – tree removal / additional mowing /
invasives

 Walton – Griswold – wall clearing / boundary posting on parcel
north of homestead
 Fennerswood – Stonington – trail work
 Tefftweald – North Stonington - mow fields / trail maintenance
(NS Boy Scout troop is maintaining)
 Knox Preserve – Stonington – invasive removal / cutting of oak
trees / releasing apple trees / replace gate.
 Hoffman Preserve – Stonington – re-blazing of blue trail,
especially lower section / relocation of parts of blue trail / boundary
posting replacing old signs / install waterbars.
 Lambs Way – Stonington – boundary posting.
 Leuba Preserve – Groton – invasive (bittersweet) removal.
 Anguilla Brook / Coope – North Stonington – trash along Rt. 184
& North Anguilla needs to be picked up / invasives on Coope /
south boundary needs posting.
 Dow Centennial – Ledyard – replace telephone pole that was
blocking farm road and reinstall heavy rod (was moved so it no
longer is blocking trail).
Wisteria removal near Whalehead Road.
 Pine Swamp Wildlife Corridor – Ledyard - Install water bars on
hillside on trail from Hillside Drive. Trail work on slope before
boulder moraine.
Remove blow-downs.
 Pequotsepos 1 & 2 – Stonington – Orange trail needs re-blazing
and widened. Re-establish connecting trails (Property steward will
work on this).
 Shunock River Preserve – North Stonington – Re-blazing blue
trail along ledges (removal of old blazes).
 Buckley Preserve – Groton – Definition of interior boundary and
invasive plant removal (winged euonymous).
 Red Brook Preserve – Ledyard – Add signs along west
boundary. Remove blowdowns.
 Quinnebaug Valley Preserve – Griswold – boundary posting /
cleanup.
 Honnen Preserve – Griswold – boundary posting / cleanup.
 Southwire Preserve – Griswold – boundary posting / cleanup
 Main’s Brook Preserve – Preston – boundary sign posting
 Paffard Woods Preserve – Stonington – install water bar
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Other opportunities to volunteer:

1.  Office help  some have checked their willingness to help at the office
and indeed some have helped, but more can be done, so check in via email

2.  Web site  our web master will be leaving this job soon.  The site is based
in Yahoo site builder and does not require HTML knowledge.  The future
building projects may include  password protected pages for
Board/members only.  The amount of time each month varies from one to
eight hours and hasn't proved to be burdensome-so check in via email