On a beautiful Saturday morning in September, a small group of classmates from the Fall Advanced Naturalist Club program joined Ashland Naturalist Joe Sebastiani for a class field trip to Flint Woods. Located in the piedmont region of Northern Delaware, Flint Woods is a 35-acre Delaware Nature Society (DelNature) property acquired through the generosity of …
Delaware Nature Society started the summer iNaturalist contest on June 1 to encourage folks to visit Ashland Nature Center and use the iNaturalist app or website to record their observations. These observations are automatically pulled into the Ashland Nature Center Biodiversity iNaturalist project, where we catalogue plants and animals that observers report. For more details, …
Ashland Biodiversity iNaturalist Project Winner of the Month! Read More »
Ian Stewart “Delaware Nature Society’s mission is to connect people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, conservation, and advocacy.” We have been following this mission statement since our founding in 1964 and every year we connect over a thousand people with nature through our adult, family and youth programs, summer camps, …
Magical Milkweeds: The plants that check all the boxes! Read More »
Story and photographs by Deb Vickery After ensuring the plants and flowers in the Ashland Butterfly House were in good order, it was time to start stocking it with local butterflies. Armed with the tools of the trade, a butterfly net and a big plastic jar with a screw top lid, I set out early …
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