Blue Jay Barrens

Since I don’t actually count the butterflies or produce any type of tally, my annual observations of the Edwards’ Hairstreak Butterfly ca...

Within the Blue Jay Barrens prairie openings are a scattering of medium to small sized Blackjack Oaks.  Some of these trees are decades o...

Back in May 2015 I girdled and applied herbicide to the large trees in this area in an attempt to create a grassland corridor between two...

The eggs laid last summer by the Edwards’ Hairstreak butterflies have recently hatched and the buds of the Blackjack Oaks on the barrens...

I always enjoy running across a Beech tree. Across the entire property I’ve probably encountered fewer than a dozen specimens. This is a sma...

This small spot is an area of fairly level soil sitting between two converging streams. There are some shallow depressions and troughs in t...