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Crow’s Nest: Fall Foliage Forecast

October 9, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Leaf peepers alert! While the season so far has been beautiful, we’re not at peak fall color yet. Which is…

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Crow’s Nest: Welcome, Alison Joyce!

October 7, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We are pleased to welcome intern Alison Joyce to Crow’s Nest Preserve! She has joined our staff for an 11-month long…

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Crow’s Nest: Opening a window

September 20, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Many plants grow very well here; we are fortunate for that. Some of our land stewardship, pruning and weeding, I think…

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Crow’s Nest: What goes up…

August 29, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We’ve had a challenging few weeks cleaning up from storms at the beginning of August. We cleaned up the trees…

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Crow’s Nest Family Camp 2020

August 8, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Photos by Molly Smyrl and Sarah Boone. As you know we didn’t hold our traditional summer camp this year due to the…

A fallen tree in a natural setting.

Crow’s Nest: Hairy weather

August 7, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Something more than five inches of rain fell on Tuesday in only a few hours, resulting in what we think…

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Crow’s Nest: Camera technology

August 2, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Yesterday, as a tiny eastern tailed blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas) landed on my hand and I took a photo of…

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Crow’s Nest: Citizen scientist observation

July 31, 2020

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The citizen-scientist in our household, age 11, found his first adult spotted lanternfly of the year yesterday, July 30, 2020.…

Find Yourself Outside

Are you up to the challenge? Explore all 20 of our featured preserves and Stoneleigh: a natural garden, and collect all the code words to receive a Natural Lands “Find Yourself Outside” t-shirt.

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Music. Without Walls.

Rock, roots, and rhythm. No matter what the style, music is better with nature as the backdrop.

So get your groove on this year with Natural Lands at these amazing events!

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Pints on the Preserve

East Branch Brewing Company will be pouring suds on select Saturdays, beginning at 2:00pm. Enjoy refreshments with a take-your-breath-away view.

 

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