On the slopes of the hill above Piersol Road you can see trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens) in bloom right now. Here’s one nestled into a bed…

Trout lily (Erithronium americanum) is in full bloom and this has been a great year for it. There are always a lot of (spotted, like…

I had the pleasure today of a new experience: co-delivering a webinar on invasive plants with a couple folks from Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and…

Here are some photos of this week’s blooms. Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis): Spicebush (Lindera benzoin): Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica): And two more that I just added…

This week the bloodroot and spring beauties started blooming, and the red maple trees and spicebush are also in flower. Yesterday the American toads started…

Yesterday we went hunting for round-lobed hepatica in the deep woods. It wasn’t fully open yet, but I couldn’t resist sharing a photo of this…

  Members of our volunteer team, the Force of Nature, toured Crow’s Nest this week to talk about current and upcoming projects. Two years of…

We held our summer camp reunion this weekend and were happy to see so many campers again. We went on hikes, flew kites (something we…

This winter Pennsylvania Game Commission biologists are conducting a study of deer survival rates and causes of their death. They will be live-trapping deer at…