By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Wow. This was unlike anything I have ever experienced. Two heavy hailstorms separated by a few minutes of sun. Just…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This is an incredible year for pink lady’s slipper orchids (Cypripedium acaule) at Crow’s Nest Preserve. We don’t have many but…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Actually, it’s not a big area, but it is a LOT of plants. We’re planting meadow plugs on 1 to…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager While I was on the mower late this afternoon I saw the storm front coming in… several families who had…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We found this juvenile Eastern newt (Notophalmus viridescens) crossing the road at the visitor center barn at Crow’s Nest yesterday.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager A few Force of Nature volunteers braved the beautiful weather and multiflora rose thorns to cut invasives at Crow’s Nest…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This evening or tomorrow evening are likely to be warm enough and wet enough for more amphibian migrations. We don’t…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager You still have to search a bit to see signs of spring… red maples are starting to bloom and skunk…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager After work yesterday my son Owen wanted to go exploring on the hill across from the house. It was beautiful…

Posted by Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We’ve set up a motion-sensing camera in the woods here for a few months, and I am gradually getting…