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Crow’s Nest: Send us your photos!

March 17, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. As we have had to turn to sharing our experiences digitally in our daily isolation, I encourage you to share…

Two people wearing gardening clothes squat in a muddy field, holding a woven hay mat on the ground.

Crow’s Nest: Stream Restoration Project Completed

March 11, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We finished seeding and unrolling erosion control mats today following the regrading of the terrain where our pond used to…

On my night table: The Overstory

March 8, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. It’s 3:30 in the morning and I’ve just finished reading Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory. When I told a preserve…

Crow’s Nest Spring Nature Clubs scheduled

March 6, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Molly Smyrl has scheduled our spring programs after having completed a winter session with no snow… which means no sledding!…

A brown winter field boardered by trees.

Crow’s Nest: Patchiness, or why I think structural diversity is important in habitat management

February 25, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Aerial photo by Steve Eisenhauer. When we burn a meadow to manage habitat for grassland species, we don’t expect the…

A group photo of volunteers posing with hand tools and smiling.

Crow’s Nest: Volunteers care for successional area

February 24, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. A great crew showed up Sunday to cut vines and multiflora rose in an old field that is now well underway…

Wildflowers blooming in front of a wooden fence.

Crow’s Nest: Film left in the camera

February 23, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Ok, not actually film (though I still could do that). But I dug out the digital camera this week after not…

Crow’s Nest: Trail camera roundup

February 22, 2020

By Daniel Barringer. Trail camera photos by Alec Moloznik. I put Alec in charge of maintaining our trail camera and he’s proven adept at choosing…

Force of Nature Class of 2020 kicks off at Crow’s Nest!

February 17, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. This weekend we held the first of several trainings for new Force of Nature training. Erin Smith gave an introduction…

A yellow meadow surrounded by trees in a winter landscape.

Crow’s Nest: February projects

February 9, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’ve had an unusually busy winter, and we haven’t even had the frozen ground needed to mow our meadows yet.…

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