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Blue Mountain - Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Project
 The
Kittatinny Ridge Project, led by Audubon Pennsylvania, is a collaborative
effort of local, regional, and state organizations and agencies
to focus public attention on the importance of the 185-mile long
forested Ridge through Pennsylvania; and to promote conservation
activities to protect the Ridge from further habitat loss, fragmentation,
and inappropriate land use.
The Kittatinny Ridge (also known as Blue Mountain)
is a long mountain ridge that winds 185 miles through eastern
and central Pennsylvania, to the Maryland line. The Ridge is a
globally-significant fall migration flyway used annually by tens
of thousands of raptors and vultures and millions of songbirds,
and has been designated by Audubon Pennsylvania, as the largest
of the state’s “Important Bird Areas.” The many rock outcroppings
along the ridge also make it an excellent place to watch migrating
hawks, eagles and vultures. Hawk Mountain Sanctuary and Audubon’s
HawkWatch at Waggoner’s Gap are located along the Ridge.
Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Corridor includes
160 miles of the Appalachian Trail; and serves as a vital link
in the Appalachian Forest that stretches the length of the East,
providing critical, high quality interior-forest habitat for dozens
of species of songbirds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. The
Ridge also protects important drinking water supplies and stream
habitat.
Educators, schools, nature centers, libraries,
group leaders, conservation groups, and government offices can
receive FREE copies of the Kittatinny Ridge poster. Please click
here
for more details.
Waggoner's
Gap Community Survey
Please click the headline above to complete a survey about Waggoner's
Gap and Audubon's plans for the Hawk Watch. You may print the
survey and mail it or complete the form electronically and e-mail
it. Alternately, you may pick up a copy of the survey at the following locations.
Cumberland County Planning Commission office - located at 18 N. Hanover Street -
Carlisle. Cumberland Valley Tourist Bureau - located at 401 E. Louther Street -
Carlisle. Courthouse at the square in Carlisle - see brochure display.
Directions for where to send your survey appear at the end
of the form. Thanks you for your help!
Website Links to Partnering Organizations:
PA
State Environmental Education
Hawk
Mountain
Manada
Conservancy
The
Nature Conservancy
Appalachian
Trail Conservancy
Blue
Mountain Wildlife Conservancy
Charles
Brightbill Educational Center
Lehigh
Gap Nature Center
Wildwood
Park Olewine Nature Center
Jacobsburg
Environmental Educational Center
Central
Pennsylvania Conservancy
Kings
Gap Education Center
Hawk
Migration Association of North America | 
