Conservancy Blog

Conservancy Blog

Taking their Learning Outdoors

Last week, our Waterloo Mills Preserve in Devon played host to seventh graders from Radnor Middle School. 

Radnor students have visited the Preserve every year for the last six years as part of the "Watershed" Integrated Learning Program. Through this program, science and math concepts...

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Working to Restore a Woodland Treasure

The yellow lady's slipper orchid is a beautiful wildflower that grows in moist, rich, rocky woods and slopes. The name calceolus in Latin means "little shoe" in reference to the slipper-like shape of the flower. While these wildflowers used to be common in our local woodlands, they are becoming scarce due to browse from white-tailed deer, competition from non-native species, and loss of woodland habitat.
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Migration in Full Swing

For the last two weeks, the southerly winds have provided an opportunity for many of our migratory bird species to make their way northward.

The highlight for the last week has been the bountiful warblers, vireos, and flycatchers that have begun to make their way northward to their breeding...

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Acidic Soils = Spectacular Blooms

Last Friday, we were treated to an amazing display of blooms on a visit to one of our properties under easement in northern Chester County. The woodland was covered in pinxterbloom, one of our few native azalea species. It commonly occurs in mixed deciduous forests and is very shade tolerant.
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Spring Emergence and Migrants

Spring has arrived, the weather is growing warmer, and our native wildlife is beginning to appear again. 

Some species, like the eastern garter snake below, have spent the winter in an underground hibernaculum with hundreds of other garter snakes. The eastern garter snake is among the...

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