Avalon Park & Preserve is proud to be a part of these unique programs.

Avalon Park's S.T.A.T.E. Program
Inspired by campers’ enthusiasm and the incredible success of Avalon Park and Preserve’s summer Environmental Stewardship program, director Katharine Griffiths has decided to introduce a year-round stewardship organization: Students Taking Action for Tomorrow’s Environment. Program coordinator Rebecca Kassay corresponds with environmentally conscious non-profit organizations, planning hands-on, rewarding volunteer projects. S.T.A.T.E. provides students ages 14-17 from various local school districts an outlet for nature-rooted curiosities, creative energy, and their desire to strengthen their relationship with the local community and ecology.

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Avalon Park's Environmental Stewardship Program
 In the summer of 2007 Avalon Park initiated its Outdoor Leadership and Environmental Stewardship Program. The brainchild of Avalon director Katharine Griffiths and school teachers Steve Gessler and Doug Elliot, this program was created in an attempt to get youngsters into the outdoors and connected to the environment in which they live. It is our goal that this program will offer youngsters the opportunity to experience the outdoors in new ways and instill a sense of responsibility and ownership through land stewardship in their own community.

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Applications for the 2012 summer program will be available March 1, 2012.

Four Harbors Audubon Society
Hosts regular bird walks in Avalon Preserve on the second Saturday of every month.

We will meet at the entrance gate across from the Grist Mill.
December-March at 9:00AM • April-November 8:00AM

The walks should last about one and a half to two hours. The places to be visited will depend on the season and will include all areas of the Avalon Preserve, the East Farm Preserve, the Stony Brook Estuary and Harbor. Join us and see some of our beautiful native and migratory birds as they feed, breed, and vacation in our beautiful Avalon Preserve.

9:00 AM:
January 14 • February 11 • March 10 • November 10 • December 8

8:00 AM:
April 14 • May 12 • June 9 • July 14 • August 11 • September 8 • October 13

Please keep in mind if we have heavy rain or snow the walk will be cancelled.
Email to sign up.