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.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I just pulled the trail camera because the hayfield in front of it has grown up and the waving of…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. No, not spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)—though that is blooming right now. This is just a quick check-in with the rapidly…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Under a tarp in the backyard at the preserve I found this beautiful Eastern milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum). Ours…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. …will eventually need to be taken down. Or maintained. Here Aubrey is digging out the concrete in which a split…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Researchers from Penn State will be doing research at Crow’s Nest this year on the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma deliculata), the…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Yesterday we completed the prescribed burns in two meadows at Crow’s Nest; one above the Chief’s Grove and another small…