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.
Bird Park Stiltgrass Removal
Saturday, Aug. 16, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m.
Meet at the Beadling parking lot. If the lot is full, park on a nearby side-street.
Sign up HERE!
Please join our efforts to improve Bird Park. We need to pull invasive stiltgrass before it goes to seed and becomes even more of a problem. We hope we can also do a health check, which means checking an area for any new growth by invasive plants we’ve tried to eradicate.
Please wear long pants and sleeves, and actual shoes (not flipflops) for tick and poison ivy protection. Bring water, gloves, loppers, clippers and/or saws.
All activities are weather permitting.
Photo shows invasive stiltgrass (narrow leaves with white stripes) intermingled with Mayapple, a really nice native plant whose big leaves form an umbrella shape.
Green Reads: “What if We Get it Right?”
Thursday, August 28, 2025
7:00- 8:00 PM
Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Meeting Room B, lower level
Join the Green Reads Book Group for a lively discussion of “What if We Get It Right?” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. Request the book at the Mt. Lebanon Library Circulation Desk around August 1.
The Green Reads group meets four times a year (February, May, August, and November) and focuses on books related to nature, conservation, and environmental action.
Sign up HERE.
School in the Park 2025 recap
Thanks to the seven elementary schools, third grade teachers, chaperones and community volunteers and organizers Sarah Levinthal and Alexis Smith for carrying out another successful season of School in the Park. This is an interactive nature discovery program for Mt. Lebanon’s 3rd grade students held each spring in Bird Park.
Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy began this program in 1984, in collaboration with Mt. Lebanon School District. The program’s activities support the school district’s third grade science curriculum.
During their visit to the park, students investigate the Field Edge, Forest and Stream habitats, and learn about adaptations of Birds and Invertebrates. School in the Park is staffed entirely by volunteer instructors from the Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy, the community, and high school students. Most of these high school volunteers are graduates of the School in the Park Program themselves!
Thank you!
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.
