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Monitoring Conservation Easements
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager This is the time of year when we get out to monitor the private lands that landowners have placed under…
Crow’s Nest: Getting it done.
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager It’s nice to have a (relatively) warm day to catch up on projects and prepare for the next storm. I…
Crow’s Nest: Snow and light
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager The snow has been light, but we’ll take what we can get. The springhouse below nestles in the snow. The…
Giants of Crow’s Nest
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager While they might not be state champions, there are a few large and significant trees at Crow’s Nest. Above is…
Crow’s Nest Winter Scenes
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager While reviewing photos documenting last year’s conservation easement monitoring I have been struck by how last winter, everything was snow…
Crow’s Nest: Winter work
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager We’ve made it through the days of single (but positive!) digit temperatures, for now. We took advantage of that “hard-edge”…
Crow’s Nest: Looking West at Sunrise
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager And looking East at sunset… We’ve had the kind of weather conditions lately where the sky clears at the horizon…
Crow’s Nest: Mowing in December?
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager You might expect that we mow some parts of the preserve—trails and turf around buildings—from late April through November (this…
Crow’s Nest: About those cedars
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager A preserve visitor today stopped in today and talked with my wife Denise; he wondered why the cedars in the…