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	Shawangunk - Kittatinny Ridge
		On the Kittatinny Ridge at the southern end, the conglomerate caprock is narrower and confined to the eastern part of the ridge.
		The section of the Neversink River along the Shawangunk Ridge is bordered on the east by the steep forested uplands of the ridge and on the west by a broad, flat floodplain that is predominantly in agriculture.
		The Allegheny woodrat population on the ridge was extirpated, probably by a parasitic roundworm spread by raccoons.
	training.fws.gov /library/pubs5/web_link/text/skr_form.htm (6068 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Shawangunk Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Shawangunk Ridge from south of New Paltz, N.Y. The Shawangunk Ridge (also known as the Shawangunk Mountains, or The Gunks) is a ridge of mountains in Ulster County, Sullivan County and Orange County in the state of New York, extending from the northernmost point of New Jersey to the Catskill Mountains.
		The entire ridge was glaciated during the last (Wisconsin) glaciation which scoured the ridges, left pockets of till, and dumped talus (blocks of rock) off the east side of the ridge.
		The ridge is widest (7.5 miles/12 kilometers) near the northern end, narrow in the middle (1.25 miles/under 2 kilometers) with a maximum elevation of 2,289 feet (698 meters) at Lake Maratanza on the Shawangunk Ridge.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shawangunk-Ridge (5787 words)

	Project Overview // Facts & Information // Blue Mountain - Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Project // Pennsylvania Audubon
		The Blue Mountain - Kittatinny Ridge Project is a collaborative effort of local, regional, and state organizations and agencies to focus public attention on the importance of Blue Mountain and the Kittatinny Ridge; and to help foster good stewardship of the Ridge for future generations.
		The Ridge is one of Pennsylvania’s most prominent natural features, forming the eastern-most edge of the “ridge and valley” region — a forested series of folds in the earth’s crust that uniquely defines the landscape of the southeast quadrant of Pennsylvania.
		The Ridge’s quiet, natural beauty and undisturbed wildlife habitat is being threatened by urban sprawl, an overabundance of deer, illegal dumping, and in-appropriate land use.
	www.audubon.org /Chapter/pa/pa/kittatinny/facts_overview.html (1084 words)

	Blue Mountain - Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Project // Pennsylvania Audubon
		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.
		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.
	www.kittatinnyridge.org (167 words)

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		The Kittatiny Ridge hike is tucked away between better-known parts of the Appalachian Trail system.
		The boulders on the ridge form a long bench, and the seating is quite comfortable.
		The climb to the ridge is the most difficult part of the hike.
	www.purdes.com /njhiking/kittatinny/index.html (1536 words)

	New Jersey Real Estate License Professor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		They are the Ridge and Valley province, also called the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Section or the Newer Appalachians; the New Jersey Highlands, a portion of the broader physiographic region called the New England province; the Piedmont; and the Atlantic portion of the Coastal Plain.
		On Kittatinny Mountain, a few miles south of the New York-New Jersey boundary, is High Point, the highest elevation in the state at 550 m (1,803 ft).
		The floor of the valley is underlain by limestone with irregular ridges of shale outcrops.
	www.licenseprofessor.com /NewJersey_Real_Estate_Exam/NewJersey_people.asp (2110 words)

	Blue Mountain - Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Project // Pennsylvania Audubon
		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.
		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.
	pa.audubon.org /kittatinny (168 words)

	PoconoRecord.com: Overlooked overlooks: Kittatinny Ridge is a natural treasure
		The Kittatinny Ridge is one of those natural resources that blends into the background as we go about our lives.
		Zeph, who previously was coordinator of the Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Project for Audubon Pennsylvania and continues working to conserve the ridge, will discuss the project, which began in 2000.
		The ridge is a critical migratory flyway for raptors in the fall, allowing the birds to use the updraft to conserve energy.
	www.poconorecord.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070127/NEWS01/701270315 (852 words)

	NYC Regional Geology
		Kittatinny Mountain exists because its core consists of the highly erosion resistant Silurian Shawangunk Formation (Figures 73 and 74).
		The chasm of the Delaware River through the high ridge of Kittatinny Mountain is one of many "water gaps" and "wind gaps" through high ridges in the Appalachian Mountains.
		The steeply dipping ridges of rock along the eastern slope consist of tightly cemented sandstone and conglomerate of the Silurian Shawangunk Formation (Figure 75).
	3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /nyc/parks/loc32.htm (1172 words)

	Kittatinny Coalition Members // Partner Groups & Local Experts // Blue Mountain - Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Project ...
		The trails of the Kittatinny Ridge are also a favorite destination for outings led by AMC chapter volunteers.
		Connection to Ridge: In the ridge they perform various types of habitat work including: planting seedlings and bushes to produce future mast and berry crops, seeding and liming old roads close to all vehicular traffic, and working on spring seeps.
		Connection to Ridge: Strong desire to protect the ridge from development and logging due to its global importance for the migration of birds.
	www.audubon.org /chapter/pa/pa/kittatinny/partner_coalition.html (1398 words)

	Bushkill To Port Jervis
		The Marcellus shales of the Buried Valley, which form the towering cliffs bordering the river along the base of which the road is laid, make a road-bed as smooth and hard as a floor, the chief highway of this district, for the railway has not yet penetrated it.
		Above, the Delaware flows through the ridges by a winding ravine cut transversely across the hard rocks almost all the way, while below, it meanders parallel to the ridges along the outcrop of the softer rocks of the Marcellus shales and Clinton formations in the long, trough-like buried valleys.
		The long and towering ridge of Point Peter, forming the north-western boundary of the Neversink Valley, and thrust out to the Delaware, bounding the gorge through which the river comes, overlooks the town.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles24/america-65.shtml (1059 words)

	Pennsylvania Audubon
		Learn how Audubon Pennsylvania is helping to form committees that assist local governments with protecting natural resources along the Kittatinny Ridge.
		The Kittatinny Ridge is an important greenway, well known for its hiking opportunities, hawk watching, wildlife habitat, scenic views, and wellhead protection.
		The Conservation Plan gives an overview of the cultural and natural resources of the Kittatinny Ridge and recommends strategies and priorities for protecting the Ridge corridor for people and ecological integrity.
	pa.audubon.org (254 words)

	natural resources conservation service soil nj
		A shale ridge (knob) is big and rolling - landscape size, rather than the smaller limestone outcrop with its protected soil pockets.
		The Kittatinny Ridge is tough conglomerate with quartzy pebbles, sand—size rounded rock fragments cemented in a matrix.
		In Warren County by the Delaware Water Gap, the ridge is high and wide with red sandstone.
	www.dig-itmag.com /departments/soil_story/11_0_14_0_M (744 words)

	Terminal Moraine
		Above this is the noted " Foul Rift," where the river channel is filled with boulders and rocks of all sizes and shapes, the dread of the rafts-men who gave it the name, for many a raft has been wrecked there.
		There has also been found a "glacial groove" upon the rocks of the Kittatinny near the Water Gap, where some ponderous fragment, imbedded in the ice, as it moved along has gouged out a great scratch six feet wide and seventy feet in length.
		It passed bodily across the sharp edges of the upright sandstone strata of the Kittatinny, yet has not had appreciable effect in cutting the ridge down, the glaciated portion east of the " Wind Gap" appearing as high and as sharply defined as the unglaciated part to the westward of the moraine.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles24/america-62.shtml (819 words)

	PETITION FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
		The importance of Hawk Mountain and the Kittatinny Ridge (including the Port Clinton proposed tower site) to avian species and their migration is amply documented in the enclosed materials and is well known throughout the U.S. Numerous publications and reports document the mortality of migratory birds caused by communication towers.
		Clearly, the scientists most familiar with the Kittatinny Ridge, Hawk Mountain, and the migration of birds in this area have demonstrated in the quotation above and in the other attached documents that a lighted communication tower protruding above the tree tops on the Ridge is a great threat to migratory birds.
		The PTI tower is located on the same Kittatinny Ridge as Hawk Mountain, right in the migratory path of the same birds passing over and around Hawk Mountain each spring and fall, and is proposed to be located only four miles from Hawk Mountain.
	www.abcbirds.org /policy/hawk_mtn_letter.htm (5003 words)

	Shawangunk Ridge Coalition - News & Threats
		The Shawangunk Ridge is facing a number of threats.
		Concerns: that the proposed power line could cut across the Shawangunk Ridge, impact "protected" conservation lands, and seriously degrade scenic quality along its entire route, including the Shawangunks and the Delaware River valley.
		Catskill Casinos Threaten Ridge - Three casinos authorized for the Catskills by the NYS legislature and Gov. Pataki pose a major threat to our region's environmental integrity: increased traffic, increased road and home building, increased commercial development, decreased importance of ecological values.
	www.shawangunkridge.org /threats.htm (1009 words)

	Saving Blue Mountain
		The ridge provides the headwaters for many of the streams in south central and southeast Pennsylvania, supplying clean freshwater habitat for fish and water for people.
		Keeping a core of undeveloped forest along the Kittatinny Ridge is crucial to wildlife and water quality and important to public recreation.
		Central Pennsylvania Conservancy is part of the Kittatinny Ridge Coalition, an alliance of sportsmen, conservation groups, businesses, landowners, government, and tourism agencies.
	www.conserveland.org /stories/bluemountain (1229 words)

	Central PA Magazine - WITF's Monthly Magazine
		The Kittatinny Ridge, known in various locales as Blue Mountain and First Mountain, is the easternmost of the Ridge and Valley Appalachians, the familiar uplands that run southwest to northeast diagonally across Pennsylvania.
		Since the ridge borders the Great Valley of the Appalachians, it is exposed to the southeast and collects solar energy on sunny days, producing currents of heated air that the birds can ride during their protracted journeys.
		The Hawk Mountain sanctuary is located at the junction of a spur ridge and the main Kittatinny crest, which tends to funnel all the moving birds right over the sanctuary's lookouts.
	www.centralpa.org /archives/04sept3birds.html (2470 words)

	IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The ridge is 180 miles long, and varies in elevation from 1500-1800 feet above sea level.
		Ornithological Summary: The Kittatinny Ridge funnels tens of thousands of raptors of 16 species during autumn, and lesser numbers in the spring.
		Overbrowsing by white-tailed deer is also a serious threat to many forest breeding birds along the Kittatinny Ridge, especially species that depend on a healthy understory layer and mid-story canopy.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /important_bird_areas7.htm (2126 words)

	Garden State EnviroNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gold said he grew up in Springfield and watched the Union County community change from a rural agricultural town "to a town where there was not one single undeveloped lot." He does not want the same thing to happen in Hardwick, where he moved in 1974.
		Although all the land protected is in Warren County, the group's aim is to preserve the natural and cultural history of the Kittatinny Ridge and Valley region, which stretches from northeastern Sussex County to the Delaware River in Warren.
		Charitable conservancies such as Ridge and Valley can help stretch public funds to protect more land, Dech noted, because such groups have access to finding sources - particularly grants from foundations and private donations - not available to the government.
	www.gsenet.org /library/15npf/ridgvaly.php (727 words)

	Stokes Forest in New Jersey Northwest Skylands
		Tucked in along New Jersey's Kittatinny Ridge between the better known parks of High Point State Park to the north and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to the south, Stokes has neither the most spectacular gap nor the highest mountain in the state.
		The ridge is made of Shawangunk conglomerates that are more resistant to erosion than the shales and limestone formations in the Flatbrook and Kittatinny Valleys.
		The rocky ridges and soil, not advantageous for farming, were harvested extensively for timber.
	www.njskylands.com /pkstokes2.htm (1283 words)

	Raptor Corridor Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Kittatinny Ridge is a long mountain extending across parts of three states.
		The primary focus of The Kittatinny Raptor Corridor Project is preservation of biological diversity, conservation of wildlife, and protection and preservation of its habitat along the Kittatinny Ridge and corridor.
		The status of zoning in each township along the three-state length of the Kittatinny Ridge is of basic concern because some townships lack zoning.
	www.wildlifeinfo.org /KRCP/KRCP.htm (1294 words)

	Kittatinny Mountain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		), ridge of the Appalachian system, extending across NW N.J. from Shawangunk Mt., SE N.Y., to Blue Mt., S central Pa.; rises to High Point (1,803 ft/550 m), the highest peak in New Jersey.
		Kittatinny Mt. is a major resort and recreation area; the Appalachian Trail lies atop the ridge.
		The Delaware River cuts through the eastern part of the ridge forming the Delaware Water Gap.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ki/Kittatin.html (120 words)

	Stokes State Forest
		At the top of the climb, amid a cluster of pines, a short side trail to the right leads to a viewpoint from a rock ledge over the Pocono Mountains to the west.
		For the next mile or so, the A.T. follows a rather level footpath along the west side of the ridge, traversing a deciduous forest with an understory of mountain laurel and blueberry.
		After passing a large vernal pool to the left, the trail crosses a wet area on puncheons (bog bridging) and reaches a junction with the brown-blazed Stony Brook Trail and with a short blue-blazed trail that leads to the Gren Anderson Shelter.
	www.nynjtc.org /trails/record/20038028.html (1165 words)

	HawkMountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is a 2,400-acre natural area straddling the Kittatinny Ridge in eastern Pennsylvania.
		Along this trail you can see the Kittatinny Ridge and an exposed area of white rocks to the north.
		If you are hiking on the AT, you should be able to get to this box by taking the blue blazed trail to the west at the top of the Kittatinny Ridge near Eckville.
	www.enter.net /~space/Pages/Page6.html (327 words)

	Earth Science Picture of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Millions of years ago this area was part of a level plain, but a combination of erosion and gradual uplifting formed the ridges and valleys that are features of today's landscape.
		Whereas water gaps occur when ridges are cut by narrow stream valleys, wind gaps represent river cuts abandoned during the course of uplift and erosion - they're often found near the top of a ridge.
		In the late 19th century and early 20th century, a number of resorts, such as Shawnee on the Delaware, were built to take advantage of the area's scenic geology.
	epod.usra.edu /archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=68672 (177 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Worm-eating Warbler
		Audubon Pennsylvania recently launched the Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Project, a two-year comprehensive planning and public involvement process to conserve the 180,000-acre Kittatinny Ridge IBA-the state's largest IBA providing habitat for large numbers of Worm-eating Warblers and other birds.
		The objective of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Valley planning area includes preserving 120,000 hectares of mature deciduous forest, which should be able to support 50,000 pairs of Worm-eating Warbler.
		The objective of the Northern Ridge and Valley physiographic area includes providing 40,000 hectares of suitable habitat for 18,000 pairs of Worm-eating Warbler.
	www.audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=221 (921 words)

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