By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We are pleased to welcome intern Alison Joyce to Crow’s Nest Preserve! She has joined our staff for an 11-month long…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Asters and goldenrod make a beautiful combination and this year the two together have been spectacular. I often say that…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Many plants grow very well here; we are fortunate for that. Some of our land stewardship, pruning and weeding, I think…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’ve had a challenging few weeks cleaning up from storms at the beginning of August. We cleaned up the trees…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Molly Smyrl and Sarah Boone. As you know we didn’t hold our traditional summer camp this year due to the…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Something more than five inches of rain fell on Tuesday in only a few hours, resulting in what we think…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The bottlebrush buckeye, Aesculus parviflora, is attracting a lot of attention right now. And not just from the butterflies. People love…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The citizen-scientist in our household, age 11, found his first adult spotted lanternfly of the year yesterday, July 30, 2020.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. As a follow-up to the previous post about ash trees, we took down a bunch more of them this week,…