By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Photos by Molly Smyrl, Educator The seventh and eighth graders rounded out the summer’s weeks of camp. All are returning…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We’ve had glorious weather over the last couple weeks and visitors have enjoyed our peak of summer blooms. Until today,…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Third- and fourth-grade camp has been as much fun as the others. The theme is still art in nature and…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager The first and second graders came to Crow’s Nest last week for two half-day sessions each day. The program is…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This cannot pretend to be an unbiased review—let’s just say I love it. This mobile-device app is available for free…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager The cicadas started calling  around July 8. Before that, we might have had summer temperatures, and the calendar said summer…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We had another delightful week of camp, this time for fourth and fifth graders. The kids built new tree houses…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager In the everyday, is the extraordinary. Above, broadleaf or bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), a common weed of croplands and disturbed…

 By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We had a great first week of camp with the sixth graders. The theme is Art in Nature and the…