I didn’t grow up in a rural area where burning leaves was allowed, so I don’t have any childhood nostalgia for the autumn smell of…

Our work is not finished when we plant new trees. Each year we check on our young charges, making sure they are free from vines…

The initial way I had routed the downspout straight into the rain barrel resulted in too much water entering, and blowing the lid off the…

As the storm cleanup progresses I can’t help noticing that some of the preserve neighbors have been putting the brush that fell in their yards,…

Momma told me there’d be days like this… I took a forced break from storm damage cleanup due to circumstances: the goats have started getting…

He’s 50% older now than when he started (he’s now only 3) but Owen has finally completed the Natural Lands Trust Trail Guide Challenge: visiting…

I gave a presentation yesterday to the fifth graders of French Creek Elementary, about Crow’s Nest Preserve and what I do there for Natural Lands…

We lost this week a champion of open space. Eleanor Morris, co-founder—with her late husband state Representative Sam Morris—of French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust.…

We’ve had more rain than I could have imagined, and all the projects I had planned this week are thrown out the window. Yes, the…