PLEASE JOIN US SEPTEMBER 24 – OCTOBER 2, 2022

group of volunteers planting tree in park

Help us celebrate Pennsylvania’s public lands!

Healthy Lands Week is a statewide initiative to strengthen volunteer activities and raise awareness of stewardship of public lands. Through clean-up and beautification events, invasive species removal and maintenance projects, volunteer recognitions, and other initiatives, it is an annual “rallying cry” for public stewardship of public lands, parks and open spaces in Pennsylvania. This year’s impactful event runs from National Public Lands Day on September 24 through A Walk in Penn’s Woods Day on October 2. Healthy Lands Week also supports Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s Pick Up Pennsylvania initiative.

Upcoming Events

  • Laurel Mountain Volunteers Work Day

    9/24/2022 9:00 to noon
    Forbes State Forest
    Meeting place TBA

    Sponsor
    Laurel Mountain Volunteers/Forbes State Forest

    Contact
    Rachael Mahony
    724-238-1200
    rmahony@pa.gov

  • Trail Maintenance Day

    9/24/2022 9:00 to noon
    Buchanan State Forest
    Meeting place TBA

    Sponsor
    Friends of Buchanan

    Contact
    Karen Rosenberger
    donros@frontiernet.net

  • Pick Up the Poconos – Carbon

    9/24/2022 9:30 AM
    Carbon County

    Group Name
    Pick Up the Poconos

    Event ID 18203
    Estimated number of volunteers – 200

    Contact
    Liz Blose
    (570) 402-0265
    eblose@poconos.org

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Strategically, I think it’s important we all chip in to make parks and rec bigger and better across the state. Personally, I think there are a ton of really cool and creative people that volunteer, and I like interacting and being a part of that experience.

—Jason Lang, CPRE – Director of Parks and Recreation, East Goshen Township