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. 

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!

PROGRAM: Green Reads Book Group

• Thursday, May 29, 2025

• 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

• Mt Lebanon Library, Meeting room B

• Sign up HERE!

Join a lively discussion of “H Is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald. The book is available from the Mt. Lebanon Public Library. Ask at the Circulation Desk! 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.

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

Plant Sale THANK YOU!

We’re so grateful to you, our customers, for supporting Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy via the Native Plant Sale.

We sold 2,540 plants at the online pre-sale and the in-person sale May 3. The in-person sale completely sold out in 70 minutes!

We spend the earnings from this fund-raiser on programs and improving the parks. But parks aren’t the only thing that benefits! Just think of all those happy pollinators and birds that will have places to thrive throughout the community.

In addition, we send out a big thanks to our volunteers who helped prep the plants for the sale, set up the sales and pick-up areas, and clean up afterwards. And huge appreciation to the Unitarian Universalist Church of the South Hills for hosting the sale.

We’ll keep the 2025 plant sale page available for a while, in case customers want to review info about plants they just purchased or check other reference sources.

PROJECT: Bird Park checkup

• Saturday, June 21, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m.

• Meet at the Beadling Road parking lot

• Sign up HERE!

Please join our efforts to remove invasive species in Bird Park. We will also be checking on the Riparian project area (the stream-side area downhill from the soccer field) and monitoring the progress to see what work needs to be done. All activities are weather permitting.

Note parking may be limited due to soccer games at the park, so remember to give yourself enough time to find parking.

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.