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…

It is nice that these “broom snows” we’re having each day are also “leaf-blower snows.” As much as I hate to use up gasoline on…

We had many wonderful visitors to the preserve this past weekend, enjoying some mild weather to get outdoors. Winter hikers are a hardy sort, adventuresome…

We have always thought our tuliptree near the visitor center at Crow’s Nest was pretty big. The kids at camp in 2006 measured it and…

One of the things I love about this job is that some days I end up doing things I had no idea I’d be doing…

I have been reading David George Haskell’s The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature. Each chapter is a different day’s observation in a small circle…