…make one whole tractor (when they’re put back together). Roger Nichols came up to visit us from ChesLen Preserve on Tuesday to split our tractor…

By Dan Barringer, Crow’s Nest Preserve Manager We moved goats Seamus and Duffy up the road on dog leashes a couple weeks ago to their…

I just returned from a vacation in Nashville and was pleased to find that the season hadn’t advanced here too much while I was gone.…

You’ve heard the old expression, “…held together with baling twine”? Now I understand it. When you have livestock you have no shortage of bailing twine.…

With this week’s report that the emerald ash borer (Agrilis planipennis, or EAB for short) has been found for the first time in southeastern Pennsylvania we…

The red-winged blackbirds are active in the cattail swamp. The wood frogs are calling from a vernal pool in the woods, even a few cold…

A rainy day toward the end of a mild winter has me thinking about the seasons. Although it has been a mild winter it has…

I was looking something up this morning when I came across a list of recipes that use invasive plants as ingredients on the Mid-Atlantic Invasive…

The wet snow this morning is spectacular, making the woods a fairyland of white. And the best part is that so far it’s not sticking…

  From this morning’s windshield survey of the preserve… And the springhouse…