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…

By Daniel Barringer. Photos by Deb Beer. As promised, here are photos of the bog boardwalk and footbridge being built. You’ve already seen the final…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. To be clear, we’re talking about the plant here, common mullein, Verbascum thapsus. It’s not native, it’s not usually planted, and like…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I’ve long been accustomed to telling people that we don’t have any tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima) here at Crow’s Nest Preserve.…