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Aerial view of Chief's Grove, meadow, and forest as ice storm clears

Crow’s Nest: Ice and Spring

February 25, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I always kick myself if we have a beautiful snowfall or ice storm and I don’t try to get photos.…

A walnut tree trunk where a branch was pruned grows new trunk tissue

Crow’s Nest: Proper pruning

February 23, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. At Natural Lands preserves we try to showcase best management practices for land stewardship, and that includes using proper pruning…

Volunteers posing in front of a hedgerow they helped clear of invasive shrubs and vines

Crow’s Nest: Winter projects

February 4, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. It has been a cold winter so far and that helps us get certain work done. Being bundled up in…

Photo of Paul Felton at 101 standing next to his garden.

living a Natural Lands life

January 22, 2022

“Good grief! Almost 101 and still growing trees!” Those were the words that Paul Felton wrote to us in February of 2021, just six months…

A male Bluebird eating a caterpillar on a fencepost.

2021 Nest Box Report

January 21, 2022

by Tim Burris, Wildlife Management Coordinator Time to look back at the 2021 Nest Box season. I often interchange the terms nest boxes with Bluebird…

Black birch worked by woodpeckers.

Mariton: The Upside

January 12, 2022

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I’m a bit of an optimist and a pragmatist.  Afterall my parents belonged to the Greatest Generation.  They survived the…

Closeup of a variety of Daikon radish, a cucumber-like bulb emerging from the ground toward the sky

Crow’s Nest: Consider the radish

January 7, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. You may have noticed crop strips at Crow’s Nest with these odd, bulbous roots poking out of the ground. Some…

Road disappearing into the distance at sunset with bare forest trees high above

Crow’s Nest: Quiet Places virtual preserve walks

January 3, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Recently preserve visitor Kim Hoopes shared walking videos of Crow’s Nest Preserve posted on her QuietPlaces YouTube channel. They’re each about…