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Crow’s Nest: Days of the Toad

April 3, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager American toads have been busy calling and mating in the pond at Crow’s Nest. My wife Denise took this photo…

Green Hills: Meadow in a (very large) box

April 2, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager What does a meadow look like before it’s planted? In this case, bags of seeds. We took delivery yesterday of…

Mariton: Hepatica Blooming

April 1, 2016

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager The Hepatica (Hepatica americana) is blooming at Mariton.  This is one of the first native wild flowers to bloom in…

Old-growth daffodils?

March 31, 2016

By Steve Eisenhauer, Regional Director of Protection and Land Stewardship Deep in the woods at our Harold N. Peek Preserve grow some ancient daffodils. Although perhaps…

Celebration at Awbury Arbortum

March 28, 2016

Friday, March 11th, saw a party inside Awbury Arboretum’s Cope House in Philadelphia. Speakers from Natural Lands Trust, Awbury Arboretum, PA Department of Conservation and…

Meanwhile back at Crow’s Nest…

March 26, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Spring beauties (Claytonia virginica) started blooming this week, although not as many as there will be of this abundant wildflower.…

Crow’s Nest: Prescribed fires completed

March 24, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We held a successful prescribed burn of four meadows at Crow’s Nest today. The predicted high winds never arrived, though…

Mariton: More Trail Cam Photos

March 22, 2016

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I moved the trail camera about a month ago to another location. I wanted to try a larger opening.  I…

Crow’s Nest: Spring Creeping In

March 20, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Spring is arriving slowly in our native woods, despite the unseasonably warm weather we had two weeks ago. A couple of…