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…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. While I’m not nuts about high heat, humidity, or insects swarming or biting, I do love summer. It’s an easy…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. While walking the dog after work today I noticed several of my favorite flowers in bloom along the trails. Above,…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I’m always giving thought to how we don’t want to build more infrastructure than we can maintain—boardwalks and bridges, benches,…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’ve had some incredible weather this spring, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. There were weeks of low humidity and…

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…