2024: 10 Million Trees for PA (125 for our parks!)

Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy volunteers installed 125 trees and shrubs in Bird Park and Twin Hills Park in Fall 2024 as part of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership. This partnership is striving to plant 10 million trees across Pennsylvania in the next few years to improve our woodlands, air and water quality. The organization provides native trees and shrubs as well as tree tubes and stakes to its partners, who manage the planting.

The conservancy was thrilled to acquire:

• Chestnut oak

• Black gum

• White oak

• Ninebark

• Blackhaw viburnum

Conservancy volunteers planted 50 trees in various locations around Bird Park, plus 20 specifically at Trish’s Woodland Garden which is at the elbow bend in the Soccer Field Sprinter Trail.

They planted another 55 at Twin Hills, in the western area of the park near Chatham Park Drive in Scott Township.

Special thanks to Braden Meiter of the Allegheny County Department of Parks, who coordinated the tree ordering and distribution for Western Pennsylvania.