Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary
Mariton: Spring Ritual
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Every March, I brush hog Meadows #1, #2, and #3 at Mariton. This project occurs sometime between St. Patrick’s Day…
Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Every March, I brush hog Meadows #1, #2, and #3 at Mariton. This project occurs sometime between St. Patrick’s Day…
By Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I’ve been checking my nest boxes occasionally since January. Now, I’ve switched to weekly monitoring. I’m already seeing Bluebird…
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I started the 2022 vine cutting program every other Thursday with volunteers. We had this program running for several months…
by Tim Burris, Wildlife Management Coordinator Time to look back at the 2021 Nest Box season. I often interchange the terms nest boxes with Bluebird…
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I’m a bit of an optimist and a pragmatist. Afterall my parents belonged to the Greatest Generation. They survived the…
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager I was watching the weather forecast recently and the meteorologist showed the month’s calendar with the days colored red for…
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager At this time around the Winter Solstice and Christmas we often think of evergreens. With so many years at Mariton…
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager While writing the recent blog about turkey populations, I recalled several incidents I’ve had with turkeys over the years. We…
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager Wild Turkeys showed up at Mariton in the 1990’s. There was quite a large population in the township and it…
by Tim Burris, Preserve Manager. …we received a lot of rain during the third quarter of 2021. Combined, the months of July, August and September…
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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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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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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