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Crow’s Nest: Marbled Orbweaver
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Hikers from the Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club gathered at Crow’s Nest on Sunday for a guided hike and found…
Call of the Wild: Eastern Coyotes in Pennsylvania
It’s dusk at Natural Lands’ Stroud Preserve. The sun has just dipped below the horizon and the sky is the color of the pinkish-purple Echinacea…
fireworks & wildlife
The Fourth of July is often terrifying for animals—both pets and wildlife. Most animals have far more acute hearing than people. With explosions as loud…
A Snake Enjoying the Sun
by Tim Burris, Mariton Preserve Manager Earlier this week when Josh Saltmer (Bear Creek Preserve) and I were monitoring easements, Josh spotted black snakes in…
Mariton: Bluebirds Expecting
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager There are Bluebird eggs in two of Mariton’s nest boxes. Nesting activity started in one of the boxes on March…
Crossings
by Tim Burris, Mariton Preserve Manager Josh Saltmer (Bear Creek’s Preserve Manager) and I have been working in the Poconos monitoring conservation easements. A lot…
Mariton: Hi-Ho Silver
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager This marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the partnership between Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary and Natural Lands Trust. In 1992 the two…
Mariton: Band Aids for Chestnut Trees
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager American Chestnuts have issues. Since the early 1900’s a fungus that results in Chestnut Blight came to North America with…
Mariton: Snow Mow
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I mow the meadows at Mariton each year at the end of March. This year I had to start mowing…