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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…

Crow’s Nest: Odds and Ends

August 22, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Here are a few photos that haven’t made it into a themed blog post but are ones I still want…

Mariton: Wet and Warm

August 17, 2018

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Since mid-July we have received over 10 inches of rain at Mariton. That is a lot of rain.  With the…

Mariton: Spider Moon

August 16, 2018

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager The full moon in August is known as the Sturgeon Moon, as that is when native peoples caught this fish…

Mariton: Summertime Insects

August 10, 2018

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager.  Photos by Carole Mebus. Carole Mebus made a trip into the fields recently on a very hot morning. She was…

Mariton: For the Love of Maps

August 8, 2018

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I hope you have been following the Crow’s Nest Field Notes on their summer camps. This year their focus was…

Crow’s Nest: Spider vs. lanternfly

July 29, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Arachnophobes, do not scroll down. I saw a couple of these large spiders along the Creek Trail yesterday each with…