Force of Nature volunteer Jim Moffet offered to take photos at the opening of the Lydia Moyer art exhibition: The Tear Drinkers. I was so…

Last night’s contra dance in the Crow’s Nest barn was great, and dancing under the Lydia Moyer art installation was as awesome as I’d hoped…

The kids and counselors at our spring WebWalkers program borrowed a trail camera (motion-activated automatic camera) and placed it at various locations around the preserve.…

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…