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…

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…

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…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The bottlebrush buckeye, Aesculus parviflora, is attracting a lot of attention right now. And not just from the butterflies. People love…

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.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. As a follow-up to the previous post about ash trees, we took down a bunch more of them this week,…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’ve seen and discussed what the introduced insect, emerald ash borer (for short, EAB; Agrilus planipennis) can do to individual ash…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. This is a gorgeous time of year for us, the second major peak of wildflowers after the spring ephemerals. There…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. When you see this yellow “flagging” of leaves at the tips of branches on black walnut trees (Juglans nigra), take…