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Crow’s Nest: Winter work

January 12, 2015

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We’ve made it through the days of single (but positive!) digit temperatures, for now. We took advantage of that “hard-edge”…

Crow’s Nest: Looking West at Sunrise

December 18, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager And looking East at sunset… We’ve had the kind of weather conditions lately where the sky clears at the horizon…

Crow’s Nest: Mowing in December?

December 8, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager You might expect that we mow some parts of the preserve—trails and turf around buildings—from late April through November (this…

Crow’s Nest: About those cedars

November 19, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager A preserve visitor today stopped in today and talked with my wife Denise; he wondered why the cedars in the…

Crow’s Nest: Luckier than it looks

November 16, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This is probably not the kind of photo you’d expect to see on this blog. But there is a story…

Crow’s Nest: A little piece on Radio Times

October 5, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager There was a nice plug for the preserve on Friday’s NPR show, Radio Times. It’s a piece entitled, Autumn leaves and…

Crow’s Nest: The meadows have it!

September 26, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This is a spectacular time of year to see our meadows. The warm-season grasses such as Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans, foreground…

Crow’s Nest: The Eastern Comma

September 25, 2014

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager I spotted this butterfly on the fence rail the other day. Naturally, I didn’t have my camera with me—but I…

Crow’s Nest: An early Autumn walk

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We’ve had some glorious weather, and now that we have some much-needed rain I have time to upload the photos…