By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. This is a gorgeous time of year for us, the second major peak of wildflowers after the spring ephemerals. There…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. When you see this yellow “flagging” of leaves at the tips of branches on black walnut trees (Juglans nigra), take…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. To be clear, we’re talking about the plant here, common mullein, Verbascum thapsus. It’s not native, it’s not usually planted, and like…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I’ve long been accustomed to telling people that we don’t have any tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima) here at Crow’s Nest Preserve.…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Overnight, we’ve doubled the length of our boardwalks at Crow’s Nest Preserve, thanks to volunteers from the youth group at…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. As you may have read elsewhere, we are not holding our traditional summer day camps at Crow’s Nest Preserve this…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Many of us won’t be watching firework displays in person this year due to Covid-19—but there are alternatives! Sunrise and…