NALT’s summer intern, Daniel “Nino” Tomlin, fits right in with the culture at NALT: He seems happiest when he is outdoors. Nino is studying Wildlife and Fisheries Science at Penn State University. He camps, he hikes, and he white-water rafts. Nino says he came to NALT to explore whether he can turn his passion for […]
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Setting foot on Brinton Run Preserve, you can feel the historical significance of the land. You can imagine George Washington and his Continental Army fighting the Battle of Brandywine on its rolling hills, fields, and woods. You can hear the orders to retreat and visualize the American troops leaving the skirmish, hoping to regroup and
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Sightings of rare birds trumpet the conservation success story The majestic whooping crane is the tallest flying bird in North America. It stands five-feet tall and has a wingspan of seven feet. It lives for more than 30 years. And it has a distinctive trumpet “whooping” call to attract mates. By all accounts, it is
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NALT’s Brinton Run Preserve recently was featured in The Hunt, a magazine that celebrates the history, countryside and people of the Brandywine Valley. Melissa Jacobs writes about the amazing group of nonprofits and governmental agencies that partnered to purchase the 72-acre tract where the Battle of Brandywine was fought. It will be the first public
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As a kid, Steve DiSipio and his friends would play for hours and hours in the woods behind the DiSipio house. It was this time spent in nature that inspired a young Steve to pursue a career in conservation. “Growing up, I knew I wanted to do my part in preserving these local ecosystems,” he
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Picture an oak in your mind. What do you see? Do you imagine a large, tall tree in the middle of a field? Or do you picture a small, scrubby shrub on a sun-baked rock? Either way, you are right. Oaks come in all shapes and sizes. There are approximately 500 species – everything from
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