Topo map USGS New Ringgold Designated 1965 Prominence 55 m | Easiest route Lookout Trail (hike) Elevation 464 m Parent range Blue Mountain | |
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Similar The Pinnacle, Mount Minsi, Springer Mountain, Young Lick, Cowrock Mountain | ||
Hiking pennsylvania hawk mountain sanctuary
Hawk Mountain is a mountain ridge, part of the Blue Mountain Ridge in the Appalachian Mountain chain, located in central-eastern Pennsylvania near Reading and Allentown. The area includes 13,000 acres of protected private and public land, including the 2,600 acre Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.
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- Hiking pennsylvania hawk mountain sanctuary
- Map of Hawk Mountain East Brunswick Township PA 17960 USA
- Hawk mountain the pinnacle
- HistoryEdit
- Scouting and Civil Air PatrolEdit
- References
Map of Hawk Mountain, East Brunswick Township, PA 17960, USA
The River of Rocks is visible and accessible from the Sanctuary. The boulders were formed by periglacial processes in the Pleistocene epoch, or "ice age."
Hawk mountain the pinnacle
HistoryEdit
In 1929, the Pennsylvania Game Commission offered hunters $5 for every goshawk shot during migrating season, as the birds were considered pests. In 1932, Richard Pough (a birder and photographer from Philadelphia) photographed hundreds of killed hawks and published these photos in Bird Lore, the predecessor to Audubon. Thanks largely to the publicity brought by Pough's photographs, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary was incorporated in 1938, and in 1946 began year-round operations. The Game Commission bounty was terminated in 1951, although birds of prey continued to face threats, including from chemical pesticides like DDT. Bird counts have been taken at Hawk Mountain since the end of World War II, with the Sanctuary counting its millionth raptor on October 8, 1992.
Scouting and Civil Air PatrolEdit
The mountain is also home to the Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation and Hawk Mountain Camp (two Boy Scout camps) and the Civil Air Patrol's Colonel Phillip Neuweiler Ranger Training Facility (also known as the Hawk Mountain Ranger School).