By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. What, your office doesn’t look like this? Monday was a glorious day to spend cleaning up piles of branches from…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Last week’s rain was phenomenal. The official rain-gauge data for our neighborhood was 4″, though I had 7″ of water…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’re so excited to announce that there is now a tiny library at Crow’s Nest which you may discover by…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Summer is a glorious time at Crow’s Nest for wildflowers and butterflies. We have a couple species of milkweed in…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Just a reminder, with all the rain comes rainbows! Read into that as much as you’d like. While we’ve had…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Spring has gone by so quickly I haven’t had time to organize, much less look at, photos I’ve been taking.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Emerald ash borer (EAB) is an insect that bores into the trunks of ash trees, eventually girdling the cambium, the…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. There are a few good trees for climbing at Crow’s Nest. Not all of them, however, are particularly easy to…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. A lot of what we do as land managers on Natural Lands preserves is to create the conditions under which…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. During a break in this evening’s storm we walked out on the porch to see what the weather was doing.…