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A summer landscape of green meadows bordered by trees.

Green Hills Preserve

This expanse of rolling farm fields, woodlands, and wetlands offers unspoiled views and varied hiking trails.

The sun shines through the branches of a large oak tree with orange leaves.

Hildacy Preserve

Hildacy Preserve offers wonderful hiking and walking trails through meadows, woodlands, and along Crum Creek... all in the heart of Delco.

A landscape of orange Butterfly Weed wildflowers in a green field with a blue sky.

Gwynedd Preserve

The meadows at Gwynedd are filled with butterflies and other pollinators during warm weather, and still beautiful when winter dusts them with snow.

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Brown dried ferns in focus against a backdrop of tall trees in late autumn.

February

Stoneleigh: a natural garden | Stoneleigh Natural GardenVolunteer Service

Volunteer - Winter Gardening

Beams of sunlight pour through green woods around tall dark trees.

February

Saunders Woods Preserve | Member DiscountGeneral EventsNature Walks

Tricky Tree ID

February

Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary | General Events

Towpaths & Tales: An Aerial Photographic History of the Delaware Canals

A volunteer in a blue Force of Nature shirt smiles at the camera, holding a tree tube in a large open space.

March

Stroud Preserve | Volunteer Service

Volunteer - Nurture Nature

snowy path through a winter meadow and bright blue sky overhead.

March

Binky Lee Preserve | General Events

Mantis Meadow Walk

smiling woman kneeling on the ground, planting a small tree in the dirt.

March

Binky Lee Preserve | Volunteer Service

Volunteer - Care for Nature

Close-up of Ozarch witchhazel, red blooms on a thin branch.

March

Stoneleigh: a natural garden | Stoneleigh Natural GardenVolunteer Service

Volunteer - Winter Gardening

FON Volunteer Class 2019 training at ChesLen. Russ Applegate cutting invasives.

March

Crow’s Nest Preserve | Volunteer Service

Volunteer - Nurture Nature

March

Stoneleigh: a natural garden | Stoneleigh Natural GardenVolunteer Service

Volunteer - Winter Gardening

A woman with a red hooded puffy jacket and a man in a hoodie and vest smile as they place a tree tube in a field.

March

Peacedale Preserve | Volunteer Service

Volunteer - Love our trees, please

A waterway cuts between two meadows of tall brown grass under a light blue sky.

March

Glades Wildlife Refuge | General EventsNature Walks

First Friday Hike

A green pickerel frog pokes its head out of the water while holding itself up on a floating green leaf.

March

Hildacy Preserve | Member DiscountFamily and KidsGeneral EventsNature Walks

Story Stroll – Spring Awakening

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In the news

A small grayish-brown and white Grasshopper Sparrow on a small branch with a green background

down. but not out.

Claudia Winters, Natural Lands’ assistant preserve manager for Sadsbury, Willisbrook, and Green Hills Preserves, is a self-professed birder. But really, she is a wildlifer. She…

from par to public park.

reuniting Stoneleigh and Oakwell.