Volunteer Opportunities

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, contact the Land Management Committee for Lone Tree Hill Chair.

Lone Tree Hill Volunteer Day April 27,2024

www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2024/03/01/lone-tree-hill-volunteer-day-apr...

Join us in stewarding Lone Tree Hill! The Belmont Citizens Forum, in conjunction with the Judy Record Conservation Fund, is holding its tenth annual cleanup and trail maintenance day on April 27, from 9 AM until noon.

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

Bounded by Concord Avenue, Pleasant Street, and Mill Street, Lone Tree Hill spans 119 acres of permanently protected conservation land and is available to everyone. It is stewarded through a public/private partnership by the town and McLean Hospital and is managed by the Land Management Committee.

For more information, email bcfprogramdirector@gmail.com.

Belmont Conservation Volunteers

https://www.sustainablebelmont.net/belmont-conservation-volunteers/

Belmont Conservation Volunteers is coordinated by volunteers who met while controlling the spread of ecologically harmful non-native plants at Lone Tree Hill.  We wish now to continue that work and also encourage similar work elsewhere in Belmont. To this end we have obtained authorization to work not only at Lone Tree Hill but also in Belmont’s Town park lands and in Rock Meadow.

• Get outside for fresh air and light exercise
• Meet your neighbors & make new friends
• Restore your local public lands
• Get to know your local plant communities
• Share your knowledge with others

Everyone is welcome to join!

We hope you will join us in deepening and sharing our knowledge and experience of best practices and then using these, together, on our own, and in neighborhood groups, to protect our local plant communities. 

You can join our google group here to receive regular announcements of restoration events.

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.