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Crow’s Nest: Marbled Orbweaver

October 28, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Hikers from the Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club gathered at Crow’s Nest on Sunday for a guided hike and found…

Crow’s Nest: Rainbow over the pasture

October 21, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. There’s weather rolling through, like the winds in Mary Poppins. It looks like the sun will prevail but in the…

Mariton: Close Calls and the Changing Season

October 19, 2018

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager.  Photos by Carole Mebus. We were watching this Song Sparrow when it suddenly dropped down into the field.  A second later a Sharp-shinned…

Mariton: The Foggy Dew

October 18, 2018

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager.  Photos by Carole Mebus. We started out in dense fog on the second Tuesday Walk. We were seeing lots of…

Western Wildfires

October 17, 2018

This summer, preserve managers Darin Groff and Cooper Williams traveled out west to fight raging wildfires. Darin is a certified PA Forest Fire Warden and…

Crow’s Nest: What’s the weather?

October 13, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. At Boy Scout camp we had a weather rock—you know, a rock hung from a tripod with a sign on…

Schuylkill Highlands Challenge

September 25, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’re excited to be one of the locations to visit for the Schuylkill Highlands OUTHERE Challenge! Pick up a lanyard…

Crow’s Nest: Dead Deer

September 18, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. By now if you’ve driven through this area with the windows open, you know there’s a problem. All over, you…

Crow’s Nest: Not Crow’s Nest

September 13, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager I have long thought that America’s National Parks are sublime, and it took years of planning to get us out…