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An eastern box turtle crawling through leaf litter on the forest floor
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Eastern box turtle at Mariton

thinking outside the box.

May 16, 2025

Preserve Manager Zane Miller has spotted quite a few box turtles as he goes about his workdays. The more he encountered, the more he began to wonder how robust their population was. So, he set about studying them.

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A group of people in hats and coats sit in a circle outdoors
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Nature As Healer workshop at Hildacy Preserve, spring 2025

nature as healer

April 28, 2025

For the second time, Natural Lands’ Hildacy Preserve hosted Nature as Healer: A Writing Workshop with instructor Naila Francis of This Hallowed Wilderness. Despite 20 […]

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Forested hills and meadow at sunset.
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Forested hills and meadow at sunset at Crow’s Nest Preserve

Earth Day Reflections

April 22, 2025

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Spring is upon us and the ephemeral wildflowers are incredible right now. Crow’s Nest Preserve lags behind much of the […]

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Prescribed fire burning grasslands
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Prescribed fire burning grasslands at Crow’s Nest Preserve

Prescribed Fire Improves Grassland Habitat

March 12, 2025

Prescribed fire more closely mimics a natural process than mowing, an alternative we use when burning is not possible.

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A ring-neck snake on stone.
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A ring-neck snake on stone at Crow’s Nest Preserve.

Office Hours

February 7, 2025

I don’t spend a lot of time in the office—but in the winter you may find me in the visitor center barn office.

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Volunteers posing in front of the woods they are taking care of.
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Volunteers posing in front of the woods they are taking care of at Crow’s Nest Preserve.

Weather Holds For Volunteers!

February 6, 2025

Despite some rough weather in the last few weeks we had a decent day for February’s hardy volunteers at Crow’s Nest Preserve.

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Presentation slide showing then and now for a dump turned into a woodland garden
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Presentation slide showing then and now for a dump turned into a woodland garden in Warwick Woods at Crow’s Nest Preserve

Then And Now: Creating A Garden

January 29, 2025

Assistant Educator and Land Steward Devon Funt presents the native woodland garden she designed and installed with volunteers.

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Snowplow truck operating in driving snow at night
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Snowplow truck operating in driving snow at night at Crow’s Nest Preserve

Digging Out

January 20, 2025

We’re all cleared out at Crow’s Nest Preserve. Cody has plowed, and the visitor center walkways have been shoveled a couple of times.

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