By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Usually I try to keep weblog entries full of the positive news on the preserve—what’s blooming, what we’ve accomplished lately,…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. No, not spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)—though that is blooming right now. This is just a quick check-in with the rapidly…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Under a tarp in the backyard at the preserve I found this beautiful Eastern milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum). Ours…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. You could say that prescribed fire resets the plant community into a slightly earlier state, burning off built-up organic matter and…
By Daniel Barringer. Our crew assembled last Thursday to conduct a prescribed fire at the Unionville Barrens at Cheslen Preserve. Preston Wilson ignites one side…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. …will eventually need to be taken down. Or maintained. Here Aubrey is digging out the concrete in which a split…
