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Crow’s Nest: Trail Conditions

August 4, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photo by Pete Smyrl.   Much as I would like to manage a “no apologies” preserve, I have to ask…

Crow’s Nest Camp: Week Three

August 3, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Pete Smyrl. The 3rd and 4th graders of week three explored the preserve and worked on mapmaking skills…

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…

Mariton: Protecting White Ash Trees

July 24, 2018

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Tom Levendusky and I recently put Tubex tubes on the stump sprouts of white ash. You may remember that these…

Crow’s Nest: Are we there yet?

July 21, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Daniel Barringer and Steve Eisenhauer. This year’s theme at camp is maps. We’re reading them and making them…

Mariton: Indian Pipes

July 20, 2018

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Indian Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) are up and blooming at Mariton right now.  This wild flower lacks chlorophyll and taps into…

Crow’s Nest Camp: Week Two

July 19, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Pete Smyrl and Molly Smyrl. The second week of camp was as much of a blast as the…

Mariton: Scale on the Tuliptrees

July 14, 2018

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager If you have walked at Mariton recently you have noticed the shiny leaves along the trails.  I noticed the “honeydew”…

Crow’s Nest: Flowers of Virginia Creeper

July 13, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I’m not sure I’ve ever noticed the flowers of Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquifolia) before, shown here with the new buds. We…