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Crow’s Nest: Days of the Toad

April 3, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager American toads have been busy calling and mating in the pond at Crow’s Nest. My wife Denise took this photo…

Green Hills: Meadow in a (very large) box

April 2, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager What does a meadow look like before it’s planted? In this case, bags of seeds. We took delivery yesterday of…

Meanwhile back at Crow’s Nest…

March 26, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Spring beauties (Claytonia virginica) started blooming this week, although not as many as there will be of this abundant wildflower.…

Crow’s Nest: Prescribed fires completed

March 24, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We held a successful prescribed burn of four meadows at Crow’s Nest today. The predicted high winds never arrived, though…

Crow’s Nest: Spring Creeping In

March 20, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager Spring is arriving slowly in our native woods, despite the unseasonably warm weather we had two weeks ago. A couple of…

Green Hills: Continuous improvement

March 10, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager In our efforts to make Green Hills more accessible and attractive we have installed an information kiosk at the parking…

Crow’s Nest: Last of the Snow

March 8, 2016

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager There are just a couple piles of snow left from the big snow of January 23; they are likely to…

Crow’s Nest: More looking west at dawn

February 26, 2016

By Daniel Barringer I see the title phrase above as a metaphor for looking for beauty in unexpected places… especially needed at this time of…

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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A crowd of people sitting on haybales and camping chairs while the sun goes down.

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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