By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. At Natural Lands preserves we try to showcase best management practices for land stewardship, and that includes using proper pruning…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. It has been a cold winter so far and that helps us get certain work done. Being bundled up in…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. About this time of year I start thinking about cabin fever and want to post photos of the bounty of…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve, Manager. Since snow is forecast today, and since road salt is used heavily around our region to help clear roads of…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. You may have noticed crop strips at Crow’s Nest with these odd, bulbous roots poking out of the ground. Some…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Recently preserve visitor Kim Hoopes shared walking videos of Crow’s Nest Preserve posted on her QuietPlaces YouTube channel. They’re each about…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Since it is the end of another year, 2021, and given that I have a little time now to take…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Last weekend volunteers organized by the Horse-Shoe Trail Club finished moving tons of gravel to refresh the surface and extend…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The “stump playground” in the woods near our visitor center barn, just below the trail from the parking lot, has…