These lovely flowers (very close up) are from poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans). It is blooming right now at the preserve, and the vines are humming…

The Building Stewardship staff has moved outdoors for the summer to work on the addition that will go on the back of the lodge house…

The other day I was leafing though the April issue of Natural History magazine and reached the last page, the “Endpaper” column. Written by Rick Pruetz…

As you hike around Crow’s Nest you may notice beehives at several locations at the Preserve. The person responsible for them is Brent Sanders, neighbor…

Any day in which I see both an indigo bunting and a scarlet tanager is a good one. The wet week dried out enough to…

I received an issue of ConserveLand, a publication of the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association. It has recent statistics on the accomplishments of land trusts in…

We spent a good bit of time this week mowing; the grass has been growing so fast and we’ve had many rainy days when we…

Yesterday after the skies finally cleared we heard the first wood thrush songs of spring. I had forgotten to expect it and so I was…

May 1: first lightning bugs of the season. I notice that I saw the first of the season on May 9, 2006 and wrote about…

At this spring’s sessions of WebWalkers, WebWanderers, and WebWigglers we are looking at tracks and scat. Perhaps because of the lack of rain there are…