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A green feild with trees in the background.

Farming for soil and water

December 29, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Join our partners at Stroud Water Research Center, for a film screening on January 17: The Lay of the Land:…

A stone pathway next to a wooden bench with a building and forest in the background.

Crow’s Nest: A new place to contemplate nature

December 5, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We added this bench to the preserve yesterday, an oak slab mounted beside the walkway to the visitor center, adjacent…

Winterberry holly growing in a forest with a stone building in the background.

Crow’s Nest – Plants we love: Winterberry holly

December 2, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I’ve written about how much I like winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata) enough times that some of the links are lost…

Crow’s Nest: November isn’t all gray and brown…

November 10, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’re definitely past peak for fall color of our trees around here, with just some of the oaks on the…

Crow’s Nest: Marbled Orbweaver

October 28, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Hikers from the Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club gathered at Crow’s Nest on Sunday for a guided hike and found…

Crow’s Nest: Rainbow over the pasture

October 21, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. There’s weather rolling through, like the winds in Mary Poppins. It looks like the sun will prevail but in the…

Crow’s Nest: What’s the weather?

October 13, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. At Boy Scout camp we had a weather rock—you know, a rock hung from a tripod with a sign on…

Crow’s Nest – Plants we love: Pagoda dogwood

October 5, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Even though the common name, “pagoda” dogwood, makes this plant sound East Asian for the architectural reference, it is actually…

Schuylkill Highlands Challenge

September 25, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’re excited to be one of the locations to visit for the Schuylkill Highlands OUTHERE Challenge! Pick up a lanyard…

Crow’s Nest: Dead Deer

September 18, 2018

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. By now if you’ve driven through this area with the windows open, you know there’s a problem. All over, you…

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