By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Usually I try to keep weblog entries full of the positive news on the preserve—what’s blooming, what we’ve accomplished lately,…
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…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Yesterday I attended the retirement tribute to Paul Meyer, the Director of Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. I…
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Bill Moses. With the rain and (relatively) warm temperatures there are apt to be many amphibians on the…
