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…

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.…