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A box turtle on a person's hand in the grass.

Crow’s Nest: Reptile Rendezvous

September 1, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. On Saturday, September 10, Dawn White from Indian Run Environmental Education Center will be coming by to talk about reptiles,…

Crow’s Nest Preserve: Make yourself at home

August 31, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. After summer camp ended and as time has allowed, Cody and Allie have built some new Leopold chairs for the…

Crow’s Nest: altitude stories

August 30, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. When I walk the dog in the morning I can feel the temperature rise as my feet take me from…

Landscape reflected in the glass door of a tiny library at Crow's Nest Preserve

Crow’s Nest: book love

August 29, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The tiny library at Crow’s Nest Preserve is where nature and literature meet. You can enjoy the view (reflected in…

Crow’s Nest: Everything old is new again

July 19, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. You may have read about four Revolutionary War cannons that were found recently on a preserve nearby that is managed by…

Great spangled fritillary butterfly on purple milkweed flower

Crow’s Nest: Milkweed time

June 23, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We are now entering peak bloom time for our purple milkweed (Asclepias purpurascens), with other species shortly behind: common milkweed…

Preserve staff sitting on a climbing structure they built for kids at Crow's Nest Preserve

Crow’s Nest: Kids’ climbing structure completed

June 18, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Cody, Allie, and Joe pose on a climbing structure they just completed in the kids’ play area across the creek…

Allie Cook driving an all-terrain vehicle towing a seeder

Crow’s Nest: Planting a Pollinator Patch

June 9, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This week we completed the seeding of a “pollinator patch” at Crow’s Nest Preserve. This was an area beside a…

Force of Nature volunteers posing after a muddy cleanup of trash

Crow’s Nest: Muddy Buddies

May 5, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Force of Nature volunteers helped us out a lot this week cleaning up the last of the debris associated with…

Crow’s Nest: Happy trees

April 22, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We had a successful tree planting this week with Force of Nature volunteers, filling in gaps in a hedgerow after…

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