Volunteer Opportunities

  1. 1 A sunlit trail makes its way through the woods.
  2. 2 A path through the meadow leads toward the woods.
  3. 3 A trail between tall pines has been refreshed with new wood chips.
  4. 4 Two trail users and their dog sit in the grass at the edge of the meadow.
  5. 5 Mountain bikers stop to watch a white-tailed deer in the meadow.
  6. 6 From the meadow: a view of tall pines against a blue sky with clouds
  7. 7 A large meadow with a few trees
  8. 8 A bluebird perches on a rock.
  9. 9 Two trails cross in a wooded area.

Lone Tree Hill is publicly accessible conservation land of which nearly 100 acres is owned by the Town of Belmont. If you are interested in volunteer work to help us maintain this land, email the Land Management Committee for Lone Tree Hill Chair.

Belmont Conservation Volunteers

Belmont Conservation Volunteers meet weekend mornings (usually Saturdays) in spring, early summer and fall to control the spread of ecologically harmful non-native plants and restore native plant communities in conservation lands in Belmont, usually in seasonally changing high priority areas of Lone Tree Hill.   We also work at other times and places and encourage the formation of neighborhood groups, using our Town-authorized methods and permissions. Everyone is welcome to join!

Join our Google group for more information and to receive regular announcements of restoration events.

Join us in stewarding Lone Tree Hill! The Belmont Citizens Forum, in conjunction with the Judy Record Conservation Fund, holds its annual cleanup and trail maintenance day in April. Find out more information on the Belmont Citizens Forum website.

Help with planting white pine saplings, cleaning up, and removing invasives at the Mill Street parking lot and the Coal Road, respectively. Students can earn community service credits.

For more information, email the Belmont Citizens Forum Program Director.

Previous Volunteer Activities

In 2014, wood chips were spread that now define the historic planted Pine Allee on the Lone Tree Hill property, courtesy of energetic volunteers organized by the Belmont Citizens Forum.

More than just an aesthetic improvement, the wood chips help ease the compaction of the tree roots in the Pine Allee, one of the most beloved landscape features of Lone Tree Hill.

In 2013, volunteers helped in reworking a main trail into the property called the Old Coal Road off Pleasant Street to channel the water runoff and diminish the erosion effects.

See photos of previous volunteer activities.