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A green bridge over a stream in a forest.

Building Bridges at Bryn Coed Preserve – Part Two!

December 17, 2019

We’re building bridges at Bryn Coed Preserve! The week before Thanksgiving staff members constructed two bridges to extend the existing trail system at Bryn Coed…

Three people in winter clothing in the foreground build a bridge out of wood and metal in front of a meadow and trees. Two people in the background look on standing in front of a pile of neatly stacked supplies.

Building Bridges at Bryn Coed Preserve

We’re building bridges at Bryn Coed Preserve! The week before Thanksgiving, two unassembled bridges arrived at Bryn Coed Preserve. Over the next week staff…

Ice covers the stems of plants in a winter field.

Mariton: Freezing Rain

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I’ve been enthralled with ice since I was a little boy. As a grown man freezing rain is still beautiful,…

A road leads through a forest of icy trees.

Crow’s Nest: An icy forest

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Today the power has been going out intermittently and there’s a lot of ice on the trees—so be careful out…

Teenagers in aprons gather around a stove preparing food.

Crow’s Nest: Behind the scenes of the Edible Scat fundraiser

December 8, 2019

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Pete Smyrl. You may have read elsewhere on the internet about the edible scat samplers that we sell…

A road leads into a forest next to a field and a tall tree

Crow’s Nest: Continuing response to Emerald Ash Borer

November 25, 2019

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’re still working on alleviating the short-term effects of the devastating Emerald Ash Borer. We’ve taken an inventory of 223…

A group of volunteers holding loppers cut vines in a forest.

Crow’s Nest: Good old-fashioned vine cutting!

November 17, 2019

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We had an incredible volunteer day at Crow’s Nest today, a group of enthusiastic folks cutting vines and invasive shrubs…

Cupped hands holding a pile of small seeds

Saving a Rare, Local Ecosystem

November 13, 2019

Seed Collection and Propagation Partnership Launched MEDIA, Pa., November 13, 2019 – On a sunny autumn afternoon in late October, more than a dozen volunteers…

A tall tree surrounded by bright yellow leaves on the ground.

Crow’s Nest: Roadside photo shoot

November 6, 2019

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. On this blog we don’t talk much about trees that are not native to our region (unless they are also…

Mariton: Tree of Heaven Clones

October 28, 2019

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) is another cloning tree species. (For some reason, my colleagues and I just refer to…

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