By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Archive photos by Denis Manchon and Daniel Barringer. The morning dawned with steady rain and our hopes for the hike…
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…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Researchers from Penn State will be doing research at Crow’s Nest this year on the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma deliculata), the…
