By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Spring is very beautiful this year, perhaps it seems more so because of the situation we find ourselves in. The…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. On Thursday, April 30 we experienced a day of high winds and storms. The power didn’t go out (partly due…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We have a map that camp kids made at the first year of summer camp, 1998. It’s a three-dimensional representation…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Even in the rain the gardens at the visitor center barn look great. Although the barn is not open these…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I haven’t kept up with what’s blooming on the preserve this year—I mean I’ve seen the flowers and enjoyed them but…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. There is a simple composition here that I don’t think anyone planted, it’s just an unused wet corner where the…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Yes, it has been a cool and wet spring so far, and one advantage of that is that blooms last…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Serena Hertzog. Over the weekend—during that brief period when it didn’t rain—our neighbor and camp counselor Serena Hertzog…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. It occurred to me recently that the area around the culvert through which French Creek passes at Crow’s Nest was…