Tim Burris
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Mariton: Sylvania
By Tim Burris, Mariton Preserve Manager Sylvania means forest or woods. So, Penn’s Woods and Pennsylvania mean the same thing. What a ftting name. I…
Mariton: Meadow Mowing
By Tim Burris, Mariton Preserve Manager Before March is meadow mowing month at Mariton. By waiting until the end of winter the standing vegetation provides…
Mariton: Bird Box Day
By Tim Burris, Mariton Preserve Manager The preserve managers try to get together every winter to build Bluebird and Screech Owl boxes. Normally, we get…
Conservation Easements: Reflections
Thursday was a very reaffirming day. I started in Springfield Township, Bucks County talking with a landowner who established their Conservation Easement in 2003. At…
Wood Sculptures
More discoveries while monitoring Conservation Easements are the interesting things that happen to trees. I can explain the natural forces behind these (unlike the Escarpments…
Escarpments and Monoliths
One of the interesting features on many of my easements are Monoliths and Escarpments. I don’t understand, nor can I explain the geologic forces which…
Waterfalls
In an earlier entry I said that I would post some of my discoveries while monitoring easements. I connect with these properties personally, and I…
Pocono Easement Monitoring
I monitored easements in Pike County this week. Like Dan, I am humbled by the generosity of the people who conserve their properties with a…
Mariton: Tufted Titmice or Titmouses?
A long time ago, I read, or was told by a respected birder that the plural of Tufted Titmouse was Titmouses. It stuck; and I…
