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…

Spring may be here, but it hasn’t felt like it much yet. This morning peepers call tentatively from wetlands surrounded by wet snow. They were…

We’re about 90% finished our annual mowing of meadows at Crow’s Nest. A couple small ones remain to be mowed, and a couple are set…

We’re gearing up for a workday this week at Green Hills—to remove autumn olive and other invasives from a section of the preserve—and I snapped…

…here are some photos from this morning’s snow:             Posted by Daniel Barringer on February 14, 2013.

A neighbor recently asked me a good question: why are most of the cedars in the woods at Crow’s Nest dead? The answer lies in…