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Blue fruit on red stalks of the sassafras tree

Crow’s Nest: Looking forward to summer

January 20, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. About this time of year I start thinking about cabin fever and want to post photos of the bounty of…

Rusty underside of old preserve work truck

Crow’s Nest Pet Peeve (reprise): Road Salt, or Rust Never Sleeps

January 16, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve, Manager. Since snow is forecast today, and since road salt is used heavily around our region to help clear roads of…

Closeup of a variety of Daikon radish, a cucumber-like bulb emerging from the ground toward the sky

Crow’s Nest: Consider the radish

January 7, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. You may have noticed crop strips at Crow’s Nest with these odd, bulbous roots poking out of the ground. Some…

Road disappearing into the distance at sunset with bare forest trees high above

Crow’s Nest: Quiet Places virtual preserve walks

January 3, 2022

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Recently preserve visitor Kim Hoopes shared walking videos of Crow’s Nest Preserve posted on her QuietPlaces YouTube channel. They’re each about…

Natural Lands' Crow's Nest Preserve entrance sign with wildflowers

Crow’s Nest Preserve: 30th Anniversary

December 20, 2021

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Since it is the end of another year, 2021, and given that I have a little time now to take…

Man operating a motorized wheelbarrow to spread gravel on trail

Crow’s Nest: Horse-Shoe Trail improvements completed

December 18, 2021

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Last weekend volunteers organized by the Horse-Shoe Trail Club finished moving tons of gravel to refresh the surface and extend…

Crow’s Nest: Bug Blog

November 26, 2021

By Alison Joyce, Stewardship and Education Intern. “Bugs are gross”. It was a maxim that I had held since I was old enough to scream,…

View looking down on log sections set up as a stump playground for kids in the woods

Crow’s Nest: Play area refresh

November 24, 2021

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The “stump playground” in the woods near our visitor center barn, just below the trail from the parking lot, has…

Boy Scouts mixing concrete to build a footbridge

Crow’s Nest: Eagle Scout project improves Creek Trail

November 21, 2021

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Eagle Scout candidate Francisco Cerda recently completed his project on our Creek Trail: the construction of another footbridge that will…

Crow’s Nest: November light

November 17, 2021

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. November doesn’t have the peak of fall color that October has, nor the burst of spring and summer wildflowers, but…

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