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…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager In just the day since I last wrote about what’s blooming you can add trailing arbutus (Epigaea reopens) and the first of…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager After four years without prescribed fire at Crow’s Nest Preserve, we had a great day of controlled burns here yesterday.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager They’re back! There is a very little bit of fresh beaver sign along the Creek Trail. I thought we had…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager You have to look long and hard for signs of spring this year. Nothing is green yet, none of the…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Spring is running late and we haven’t yet had any nights of (relatively) warm rain when the yellow-spotted salamanders and…