The Local Defense Group works to promote the economic health of Fort Indiantown Gap and the strong relationship of the military installation within the local community in the Lebanon Valley.
For the first time, a Pennsylvania area important to military and conservationists alike has received a federal designation. Kittatinny Ridge has been designated a sentinel landscape.
Sentinel landscapes are undeveloped buffers of land around military installations that help prevent conflict between residential areas and noisy aircraft or training exercises. They also play a part in environmental conservation.