By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Archive photos by Denis Manchon and Daniel Barringer. The morning dawned with steady rain and our hopes for the hike…

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. I’m excited to report that the Natural Lands app has been updated. I didn’t have anything to do with it,…

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…