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…

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…

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…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager I have long thought that America’s National Parks are sublime, and it took years of planning to get us out…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We don’t have ailanthus trees, the preferred host of spotted lanternfly, at the preserve any more. That species of tree…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Here are a few photos that haven’t made it into a themed blog post but are ones I still want…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Arachnophobes, do not scroll down. I saw a couple of these large spiders along the Creek Trail yesterday each with…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Daniel Barringer and Steve Eisenhauer. This year’s theme at camp is maps. We’re reading them and making them…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I’m not sure I’ve ever noticed the flowers of Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquifolia) before, shown here with the new buds. We…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Over the last few days we’ve seen the next stage in the larval form of the invasive spotted lanternfly (Lycormis…