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SUMMARY:Friends’ Garden Team Summer Internship at Sherwood Island
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays 8-11 am and Fridays 2:30-5:30 pm\, May-August\, 2026 \nWe’re looking for two garden interns to assist the Friends’ Garden Team in all aspects of planning\, planting and maintaining the East Beach dunes & gardens. Interns report to the Friends’ Garden Team Captain\, Michele Sorensen\, a UConn Advanced Master Gardener\, and work as part of a team with other UConn Master Gardeners and local volunteers. A stipend is available for qualified students ages 17-22. \nWe meet at the Nature Center or in the East beach dunes or parking areas. Weeks worked depend upon your availability. We are flexible. As a volunteer at a CT State Park\, you would follow all CT DEEP guidance\, and must sign a waiver on your first day. Rolling applications\, aim for a mid-May submission. If interested\, please contact michelemsorensen@gmail.com by email or text/phone\nto 203-247-1390. \n\n\nActivities and responsibilities typically include\n\n\n\n\nLearning Opportunities & Benefits \n– Enjoy summer at this shorefront 235 acre state park\, visited or home to more than 300\nspecies of birds\, state-listed Diamondback Terrapin\, Bobcats\, Red Fox\, Coyote\, Deer.\n– Take part in our dune restoration project\, begun in 2017.\n– Learn to identify and care for native plants we’ve added along parking lot paths and in picnic\nareas along the beach.\n– Help us establish allees leading to the beach from the East Beach parking area.\n– Care for berry\, herb and vegetable plants in our Three Sisters Garden. Find out how they\nbenefit wildlife.\n– Identify pollinator host shrubs and perennials in our Pollinator Garden.\n– Learn to identify and control invasive plant species. Find out how they outcompete natives.\n– Identify & report butterflies & other pollinator insects using iNaturalist.\n– Observe and identify birds by sight and call & mammals by sight and signs.\n– Mini-lesson topics include pruning\, plant pathogens & soil amendments.\n– Assist with programming\, such as garden demonstrations and tours.\n– Help us create interpretive signage in English and Spanish.\n– Try out a variety of hand tools\, and learn how to care for them. We can provide tools. \nWe Appreciate\n– On-time attendance\, a strong work ethic & reliability\n– Enthusiasm for learning\n– Previous experience with gardening or landscape work is helpful\, but not required.
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SUMMARY:June 2026 - President's message
DESCRIPTION:Greetings from Sherwood Island\,\nA lot has gone on at the oldest State park in the past year. \nThe Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has embarked on a major paving\nproject throughout the park’s parking facilities and roadways. DEEP has also closed access to the Pavilion\nfor the remainder of the year due to unsafe conditions caused by deterioration of the roof and ceiling.\nEngineers are currently looking for a solution\, but it won’t be in time for this year’s Shorefest fundraiser.\nA new mowing protocol is in effect around the park aimed at discouraging the Canada Geese from\nnesting and residing here. \nMichele Sorensen\, the Friends’ Garden team Captain\, and her team of local and Master Gardener intern\nvolunteers are caring for about 150 native trees and shrubs throughout the East Beach picnic and parking\nareas. The Teams’ work helps support pollinators and wildlife at the park and on their seasonal\nmigrations. The team also maintains the Three Sisters Garden and the Pollinator Garden outside the\nNature Center. This summer\, the garden team includes our first Garden Team Intern\, Gabrielle Hebert.\nIn April\, the Garden Team\, along with Volunteers from Sacred Heart University Physician’s Assistant\nProgram planted 3\,600 more dune grass plants. This brings the total to over 24\,000 plants\, re-establishing\nthe dunes across East Beach with the hopes of increasing shoreline resilience to storm damage and\nproviding nesting areas for shore birds like the Piping Plover and Killdeer. \nThe Tree Committee has worked with Park staff to plant nine White Spruce trees this Spring to re-start\nthe Owl Habitat project. The project was paused due to the long summer droughts over the past few\nyears\, but Caitlin Munson\, our Park Supervisor\, has committed to having staff irrigate the new plantings\nthroughout the Summer to ensure their survival. \nThe Purple Martin Colony has returned this Spring and is under the careful monitoring of Tina Green\nand David Anastasia. As in years past\, there will be a bird banding activity in July by the Purple Martin\nSociety\, the date to be determined by the Martin’s schedule. \nWe can’t do this without your Membership dollars and financial support. We hope you will join us at our\nannual Meeting and take this opportunity to renew your FOSI membership. \nBest\,\nJamie Van Acker
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