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…

Last night Owen and I attended a lecture of the Berks County-based Mengel Natural History Society at Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center, on the subject…

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…

Aubrey Smith has joined us at Crow’s Nest Preserve as a Land Stewardship and Environmental Education Intern. She is a recent graduate of the Longwood Gardens…

…here are some photos from this morning’s snow:             Posted by Daniel Barringer on February 14, 2013.

Recent snows have not persisted and we have experienced a long mud season. This does not diminish the fun for the kids in any of…

Despite our running the chipper nearby, a pair of Cooper’s hawks spent the better part of the day perched on a pheasant carcass in a…

This weekend the Natural Lands Trust Force of Nature volunteers came to Crow’s Nest to perform vine control in one of our hedgerows. While some…

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…