Field Notes
Office hours
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I don’t spend a lot of time in the office—there’s a lot of land out there to manage. But in…
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Weather holds for volunteers!
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Despite some rough weather in the last few weeks we had a decent day for February’s hardy volunteers at Crow’s…
Then and Now: Creating a garden
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Assistant Educator and Land Steward Devon Funt has prepared a presentation about the native woodland garden she designed and installed…
Digging out
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’re pleased to say we’re all cleared out at Crow’s Nest Preserve. Cody started plowing last evening and resumed this…
Christmas Bird Count at Stroud
by volunteer Kathy Dale National Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count has been conducted since the year 1900. The program began as an alternative to the Christmas…
buhbye, bamboo.
Bamboo is a genus of invasive plants from Asia that are extremely difficult to remove. Like all invasive plants, this quick-growing grass takes over where…
New Year’s Day outdoors
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Sure, it’s exceedingly cold this week, but by next week who knows? There are people enjoying the preserve even today,…
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in Deer
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Chester County last had an outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in deer in 2018. In 2024 there were also…
Volunteers rock
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We had a great group of volunteers join us this morning for a brisk workday spreading two tons of gravel…
The Oculus
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. If you know me you know I like things that make me look at a landscape in a different way.…