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Photo: Daniel Barringer

Crow’s Nest: Opening a window

September 20, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Many plants grow very well here; we are fortunate for that. Some of our land stewardship, pruning and weeding, I think…

Photo: Nicholas Rohr

supporter shout out.

September 16, 2020

It’s a challenging time and we are extra appreciative of the businesses and organizations across the region that support us. These entities—through contributions of time…

Photo by Tim Burris

Mariton: Dead Man’s Fingers

September 5, 2020

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager It is a little early for Halloween, but I recently found a Dead Man’s Finger along the trail.  This is…

Mariton: Black Birches

September 3, 2020

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager A few years back I noticed some of the Black Birch (Betula lenta) trees were dying in Mariton’s forest.  There…

Photo: Daniel Barringer

Crow’s Nest: What goes up…

August 29, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’ve had a challenging few weeks cleaning up from storms at the beginning of August. We cleaned up the trees…

Photo: Sarah Boone

Crow’s Nest Family Camp 2020

August 8, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Molly Smyrl and Sarah Boone. As you know we didn’t hold our traditional summer camp this year due to the…

Photo: Daniel Barringer

Crow’s Nest: Hairy weather

August 7, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Something more than five inches of rain fell on Tuesday in only a few hours, resulting in what we think…

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Crow’s Nest: Camera technology

August 2, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Yesterday, as a tiny eastern tailed blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas) landed on my hand and I took a photo of…

Photo: Daniel Barringer

Crow’s Nest: Citizen scientist observation

July 31, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The citizen-scientist in our household, age 11, found his first adult spotted lanternfly of the year yesterday, July 30, 2020.…