About

Welcome to Seven Mountains Audubon!

We are a local chapter of the National Audubon Society in the Lewisburg and Union county area of Pennsylvania surrounded by the beauty of the Central Susquehanna Valley. If you have an interest in the natural world, want to learn more about it, and want to help preserve it, join us!

The Chapter was originally chartered in January 1974 and originally included “Union County and adjoining parts of Snyder, Center, and Northumberland Counties”. The name “Seven Mountains”  the area is “peppered with mountains” . The seven local mountains referenced in the original organizational meeting were “Jones Mountain, Nittany Mountain, Little Mountain, Jacks Mountain, Shamokin Mountain, Seven Notch Mountain, and Buffalo Mountain.” “Seven Mountains” is and has been a popular way of referring to the region west of Lewisburg since the 18th century. However, which specific mountains were the “original” seven mountains and even the origin of the local reference to the “seven mountains area” are not known but there are many theories.

You can read about the founding of the chapter in the first chapter newsletter from December 1973.