Lehman Sanctuary

Lehman Sanctuary Award winning nature sanctuary delivering environmental S.T.E.M. education & recreation to schools & community. Group reservations. Group pre-reservations only.

Twice awarded Environmental Partnership Award of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. The non-profit Lehman Sanctuary is a unique diverse habitat featuring an older growth forest with 200+ year old Oaks and Eastern Pine. Our forest canopy in this designated Exceptional Values forested wetlands protects pristine vernal pools, spring seeps, and streams - home to rare amphibians, like the Four Toe

d Salamander. We adjoin a rare undisturbed marshland with a special Great Blue Heron rookery. Our prairie grass meadow is home to butterflies like the Cabbage White,Clouded Sulfur and the Great Spangled Fritillary. We are a two-time awardee of the Environmental Partnership Award of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. The Lehman Sanctuary is an outdoor nature edu-adventure for students, educators and adults since 2005 -- a STEM-focused environmental education program serving schools like Wyoming Valley Montessori School, Wyoming Seminary, Keystone Junior College and others. If you are a school, contact us for field education. If you are a private group interested in a unique natural adventure, contact us.

06/10/2026

Witch Hazel growing from a dead tree!

So grateful for all this naturalist brings to our Lehman Sanctuary. John Ferrante
06/09/2026

So grateful for all this naturalist brings to our Lehman Sanctuary. John Ferrante

06/09/2026

Bats and their pups. 🙏PA Game Commission

06/09/2026

Bats and their pups! Thank you, Pennsylvania Game Commission! Lehman Sanctuary

Until Friday 7 pm tonight! Please give/share our one and only public annual fundraiser! We protect nature and build natu...
06/05/2026

Until Friday 7 pm tonight! Please give/share our one and only public annual fundraiser! We protect nature and build nature’s stewards.

“...Seeing youngsters light up the shaded forest demonstrates a genuinely ancient truth: Efforts of Miller and others who persevere in preservation not only offer our children a better future, they offer a better here and now.” - Times Leader, Our Opinion: May 5, 2016The...

06/05/2026

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