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Crow’s Nest: A big night?

March 25, 2015

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Spring is running late and we haven’t yet had any nights of (relatively) warm rain when the yellow-spotted salamanders and…

Crow’s Nest: Up in the air

March 17, 2015

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Today we borrowed the lift to do some tree work. Although I was trained on it last year this was…

Crow’s Nest: Snow pictures

March 8, 2015

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Rumor has it that it will keep snowing until our editor has enough photos of the preserves in snow… so…

Crow’s Nest: On thick ice…

February 22, 2015

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Yes, that’s the creek the kids are playing on. Not in, but on. Good times.

Enjoy Winter! Black Bears

February 19, 2015

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Black Bears (Ursus americanus) have a really interesting strategy for dealing with the winter.  Their winter sleep is not considered…

Crow’s Nest in the snow

February 18, 2015

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We’ve had lots of little snows here. Not enough for cross country skiing, but enough to do some shoveling and…

Green Hills: Nomination, Accepted

February 16, 2015

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Our nomination of the large red maple (Acer rubrum) at Green Hills Preserve to the register of Big Trees of Pennsylvania…

Mariton: Turkey in the Snow

February 13, 2015

by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I am seeing a lot of Turkeys on this side of the hill lately.  I think they are taking advantage…