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. 

Check out an article in April’s Mt. Lebanon Magazine to see how root structures match growing conditions.

Plant Sale and Plant Pickup May 3!

• The online pre-sale is CLOSED!

• Our in-person sale is Saturday, May 3, 10 to 1, at Sunnyhill Unitarian Church, 1240 Washington Road.

• Sales will be on a first come, first served basis.

• For online pre-sale pickups, drive up to the tent just past the church doors on the right.

• We welcome shoppers to the in-person sale! Visit our Plant Sale page to learn about the plants.

  The sale offers 18 native species (subject to supplier availability). They are in the form of “landscape plugs,” which are young plants with highly developed root systems.

  Plants are sold in strips of either 4 or 5 plugs, depending on the species. Strips cost $25-$27.50, depending on the plant and how much it costs us wholesale. A few will be available as single plants.

PROJECT: Trail cleanup in Bird Park

• Saturday, May 10, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m.

• Meet at the Bird Park pavilion

• Sign up HERE!

Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy invites you help prepare trails for use by third graders! Hundreds of kids, teachers and volunteers will all be spending time at the park for School in the Park in the coming days. School in the Park is an interactive nature discovery program that supports the school district’s third grade science curriculum.

In preparation for the program, we need to haul and spread gravel and mulch to mark the trails and repair muddy locations. Please join the hard-but-fun work project!

PROGRAMS: School in the Park

• May 12, 14, 15, 19 and 21 for third graders at Mt. Lebanon’s seven public schools

• Throughout Bird Park

School in the Park 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.