We work to promote the enhancement, growth and careful use of Mt. Lebanon’s green space parks - BIRD PARK, TWIN HILLS AND ROBB HOLLOW - and to foster an appreciation of and respect for the environment.
The Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy has many nature-based programs, volunteer work days, a native plant sale and more. To learn about our events, please see our list of events.
Green Reads: “Raising Hare”
Tuesday, Sept. 1, 7-8 p.m.
Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Meeting Room B
Join the Green Reads Book Group for a lively discussion of Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton. Ask at the Mt. Lebanon Library Circulation Desk in August.
Dalton writes of her experience rescuing and raising a baby hare (leveret) during the COVID-19 lockdown in the English countryside. The memoir details the unlikely, years-long relationship that develops as the wild hare becomes a companion, and explores themes of freedom, trust, and the human-animal bond.
Click here to learn more!
Project: Twin Hills Project Work
Saturday, Aug. 15, 9-12
Meet at Twin Hills Drive entrance to the park
We will tackle several tasks in Twin Hills, including in the riparian area. Work will include removing stilt grass (easy to pull out), removing invasive shrubs, and removing tree tubes/installing protective fencing where saplings have grown larger.
Meet at the Twin Hills Drive entrance. Bring clippers, loppers and gloves if you have them, or borrow some from us. Wear long pants and long sleeves for tick protection.
Sign up here! We will contact you if weather affects our plans.
Additional park improvement projects will be: Sept. 19 (clearing) and Oct. 25 (planting) in Twin Hills.
Our 2026 Spotlight Project
Twin Hills Park
Riparian Area
This year we are rehabilitating the stream area “between the big bridges” in Twin Hills!
Please join us as we improve the site’s ecology by removing invasive plants. Join us for phase 2 in September and October!
News: LeboNature Board member wins
Community Service Award
We are incredibly proud of our longtime board member and VP of Projects, Ron Block, for being honored with this year’s Community Service Award! We can't think of anyone more deserving!
His steady leadership and dedication over the past 20 years - from planning restoration projects, to planting trees that will provide shade, beauty and ecological value for generations, to inspiring our youth toward environmental stewardship - is truly admirable, and we are profoundly grateful to have him as an integral part of our team!
The award winner is selected annually by the Mt. Lebanon Civic Engagement Board, and supported by the Commission.
Read the story in Mt. Lebanon Magazine!
Catch the Inside Lebo podcast.
Congratulations, Ron!
How you can help Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy
Click on the “donate” button to make a contribution online. Sustaining donations (posted monthly to your credit card) help us the most because they even out the cash flow of our small non-profit organization.
Send a check donation, made out to “Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy,” to: P.O. Box 14901, Pittsburgh, PA 15243. Checks minimize the fees we pay for online processing.
We also highly value the time that volunteers give through the year. Hundreds of people join in to help weed, clip, haul or plant. We welcome other volunteer help, such as working with us to develop new programs; staffing booths at events like Mt. Lebanon’s Earth Day; doing some printing or photocopying; or contributing photographs that we can post to social media or our website.
Thank you!
Our 3 Nature Parks
Bird Park
Twin Hills Park
