By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. To be clear, we’re talking about the plant here, common mullein, Verbascum thapsus. It’s not native, it’s not usually planted, and like…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I’ve long been accustomed to telling people that we don’t have any tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima) here at Crow’s Nest Preserve.…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We have been caring for a new pair of Jersey calves at Crow’s Nest, where they will be helping us…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Many of us won’t be watching firework displays in person this year due to Covid-19—but there are alternatives! Sunrise and…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. While I’m not nuts about high heat, humidity, or insects swarming or biting, I do love summer. It’s an easy…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. While walking the dog after work today I noticed several of my favorite flowers in bloom along the trails. Above,…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I’m always giving thought to how we don’t want to build more infrastructure than we can maintain—boardwalks and bridges, benches,…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’ve had some incredible weather this spring, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. There were weeks of low humidity and…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Spring is very beautiful this year, perhaps it seems more so because of the situation we find ourselves in. The…

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We have a map that camp kids made at the first year of summer camp, 1998. It’s a three-dimensional representation…