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Words Inspired By Nature
January 10, 2023
In the fall of 2021, Villanova University’s Nature Writing Workshop met at Stoneleigh: a natural garden to take inspiration from that unique space. It was […]
America’s Oldest Urban Refuge Turns 50
January 10, 2023
About a half-mile as the crow flies from the Philadelphia Airport, amid the tidal marsh and mudflats at the southernmost point of Darby Creek, a […]
Fresh Perspective.
January 10, 2023
At Natural Lands, we often talk about being in the business of forever. We take on perpetual responsibility for the lands under our care. That […]
What’s That Sound?
January 10, 2023
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We tend to talk most about the sights on the preserve, but there is so much more to experience. Since I […]
What’s That Smell?
January 4, 2023
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. I might have hoped to start off a new year (this weblog is starting its 18th year) with profound thoughts […]
Cold Comfort.
December 12, 2022
Bats do it. Groundhogs do it. Even several jumping mice do it. (And one study suggests early humans may have, too.) Hibernation—where respiration and heartbeat […]
From Thunder Road to Hiking Trails
December 11, 2022
Legendary Pocono Drag Strip Permanently Preserved as Open Space MEDIA, Pa., December 11, 2022 – Natural Lands announced today the permanent preservation of 278 acres […]
Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education embarks on plan to permanently preserve a 24-acre forest in Upper Roxborough
December 7, 2022
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education today announced that preservation-minded donors have pledged a $3 million gift that will protect the entire 24-acre Boy Scout Tract from development in perpetuity. The donors, who wish to remain anonymous, are making the gift with Vanguard Charitable.
Reptile Rendezvous
September 1, 2022
By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. On Saturday, September 10, Dawn White from Indian Run Environmental Education Center will be coming by to talk about reptiles, […]
Success! State Environmental Funding Boosted
July 9, 2022
Dear Friends; The Pennsylvania state budget for the upcoming fiscal year has been finalized, and I am thrilled to share that Growing Greener III (referred […]
