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.
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.
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