By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This is an incredible year for pink lady’s slipper orchids (Cypripedium acaule) at Crow’s Nest Preserve. We don’t have many but…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Actually, it’s not a big area, but it is a LOT of plants. We’re planting meadow plugs on 1 to…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Morris Arboretum has graciously invited Natural Lands Trust to staff a booth at its annual plant sale, to promote native…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We were pleased to co-host a mobile workshop for the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association’s annual conference last week. Pennsylvania Department…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We plan to plant about 800 plugs of  native warm season grasses and wildflowers this weekend at Crow’s Nest Preserve.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager I’ve been caught up with projects at the preserve and was at the Pennsylvania Land Trust Alliance conference for three…

 By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager It’s the fourth day after we had 5.5″ rain and still the creek is high. That’s not the creek in…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager A Canadian goose sails off the roof of the barn toward the pond at Crow’s Nest. We don’t often have…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager While I was on the mower late this afternoon I saw the storm front coming in… several families who had…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We found this juvenile Eastern newt (Notophalmus viridescens) crossing the road at the visitor center barn at Crow’s Nest yesterday.…