By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager “Sit down, pull up a chair!” Never a dull moment at the preserve.  

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager The days are getting shorter and the hour when I open the chicken coop is getting closer to the start…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Yesterday a luna moth (Actias luna) appeared at our house on the preserve. Above, an abstract view. Below, on the woodpile.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager It was a quiet Sunday at the preserve. Many who might otherwise visit the preserve are away on vacation. It…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This isn’t the “Dirty Jobs” blog but in this photo building stewardship field supervisor Steve Holmburg is doing just that.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager A female wood duck leads her ducklings along French Creek at Crow’s Nest Preserve while a Canada goose looks on……

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We have said goodbye to a few trees here this week, the natural outcome of age and the unnatural threat…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager I am not particularly fond of forsythia, the non-native shrub that has too-garish flowers now and is nondescript the rest…