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.
The Blue Mountain's Kittatinny Ridge is newly designated for a federal land-protection program alongside parts of New Mexico, Utah, Hawaii and California.
A little more than 2 million acres have been designated a Sentinel Landscape, which opens up access to tens of millions of federal dollars for land conservation projects.
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The 27th Special Operations Wing announced that it along with Melrose Air Force Range and the surrounding 2.4 million acres will have been designated a sentinel landscape.