By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager American toads have been busy calling and mating in the pond at Crow’s Nest. My wife Denise took this photo…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Spring beauties (Claytonia virginica) started blooming this week, although not as many as there will be of this abundant wildflower.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We held a successful prescribed burn of four meadows at Crow’s Nest today. The predicted high winds never arrived, though…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Spring is arriving slowly in our native woods, despite the unseasonably warm weather we had two weeks ago. A couple of…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager There are just a couple piles of snow left from the big snow of January 23; they are likely to…

By Daniel Barringer I see the title phrase above as a metaphor for looking for beauty in unexpected places… especially needed at this time of…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager There’s a fair chance that the rain tonight, with the temperature rising, could mean this is the first night of…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager It is that time of year, as snow melts and moisture frozen in the ground softens, that we refer to…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We have a new trail camera at Crow’s Nest. It’s installed in a random location (i.e. no bait, no animal…