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…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The double bat boxes we mounted on this pole almost exactly 11 years ago finally rotted out this summer and…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We awoke to our first frost on Friday, October 19. It was a nice break from the muggy humid season…

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…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Crow’s Nest staff had the privilege this week to participate in a National Park Service program held at Hopewell Furnace…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We are pleased to welcome long-term intern Kendra Maas to Crow’s Nest! She comes to us with a degree in…

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…