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.…

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…