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Regional Active Transportation, Activate!

Did you know PennDOT is currently finalizing a new Statewide Active Transportation Plan? The report should be out by the end of January 2020. This updates the State Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan from 2007. In the interim, terminology has shifted to refer to "active transportation" rather than "bike/ped" in an effort to both be more […]

Hidden Lewisburg Tours

The next Hidden Lewisburg Tour will be on the afternoon of Friday, February 7, at 4pm, as part of the Ice Festival. We'll start in the Borough Council Chamber in the Borough Building at 55 S 5th St. We can admire the historical photos that have now been mounted on the walls since the room […]

Bike Culture Starter Kit

We held Walk It! Bike It! open input sessions at the end of 2019 and fielded all sorts of great ideas for the coming year. While the committee has been ticking off the boxes on our safety and public education initiatives for a couple years now, we want to start pursuing the idea of building […]

Coastal Cleanup Here?

2020 Fall CLEANUP WILL TAKE PLACE SUNDAY, NOV 8 (raindate Saturday, Nov 14), from 2 to 4!!! It's been an odd year, to say the least, and we haven't held any of our usual cleanups. Even the Fall In-River Cleanup didn't happen. (Though we did figure out that there's actually a sweet spot for the […]

What On Earth Is a Live Stake?

A(1) Something you can volunteer to help us with. See below for details! A(2) A cutting from a species of plant that can itself be planted to grow a new plant. These cuttings are from one to several feet long. They get pushed or pounded into the ground, rooting end down, in the moist areas […]

Pro-Tree? Plant a Tree!

There are some competing tree promotion campaigns bouncing around the conservation community right now. The top two are pretty close to each other and also seem to almost (but not quite) capture the brainworm prize. The first is from the Chesapeake Bay Conservancy braintrust and the second from the Stroud Water Research Center: Clean Water […]

Members of the community working together to preserve natural settings and streetscapes, strengthen ties among neighbors, and improve the quality of life in Lewisburg for residents and visitors.