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

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.

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

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

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.

National Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count has been conducted since 1900. It began as an alternative to Christmas Day hunts common at that time.

Our land stewardship experts have found the best way to remove bamboo is to cut the plant and apply an herbicide to the cut “stumps.” Sometimes repeat application is required. By cutting the bamboo as close to the ground as possible, we take away the plant’s ability to photosynthesize, which starves and weakens the plant.

Chester County had an outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in deer in 2018. In 2024 an unusual number of dead deer were found here.

Nationwide, grassland birds are struggling. Researchers estimate many species have lost more than half their population since 1970. One quarter of these are “Tipping Point Species”: birds that are predicted to lose another 50 percent of their population in the next 50 years.

Saunders Woods Preserve in Gladwyne welcomed a collection of original paintings by local artist Ann Hopkins Wilson earlier this year. The nature-inspired works were displayed for six months along the walking trails there, carefully lashed to the trunks of mature trees.