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Snow covered trees under dark grey skies.

Crow’s Nest: Dramatic Snow

March 4, 2019

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. This was the heaviest snowfall of the winter (so far!) but it proved easy to plow and shovel and the…

Crow’s Nest: Movie Night March 9

February 26, 2019

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’re excited to do a movie night again this spring! We’ll be screening Earth Seasoned #GapYear, a documentary by Wandering…

Downy Woodpecker perched among ice covered branches

Mariton: Birds Perched on Ice

February 23, 2019

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager.  Photos by Carole Mebus. If we are going to have freezing rain, then I guess the kind we had earlier…

Close up of a tree stump

Crow’s Nest: Tree history

February 21, 2019

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I’ve said many times that I prefer trees alive instead of cut, but sometimes we have to take down hazard trees…

Close up of bark on a tree trunk

Mariton: Hackberry Trees

February 19, 2019

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager A few weeks ago I wrote about the interesting bark on Ironwood and Musclewood.  Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) is another tree that…

Crow’s Nest: The advantages of cold

February 3, 2019

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The extreme cold has brought a couple of benefits (two nights we got down to -12 Fahrenheit). Now even 20…

Rhododendrons growing in a forest in June.

Mariton: White Blossoms

January 31, 2019

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I was standing on the River Lookout Trail on Wednesday morning looking up the little hollow.  This is a good…

Lights strung between trees in a winter landscape.

Crow’s Nest: Winter Magic

January 30, 2019

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I did most of the shoveling last night, before the temperatures dropped. It was lovely to be out in the…