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PA Highlands Region Pennsylvania Highlands Greenway Map Key Findings The Highlands Region The Pennsylvania Highlands Greenway Pennsylvania Highlands Trail Network ·At least 7 endangered and 4 threatened animal species live in the PA Highlands The four-state Highlands Region is over 3 million acres of forest, farmland and The Pennsylvania Highlands Greenway Map highlights core natural areas in the The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is collaboratively planning a trail rivers running from the border of Maryland through south-central Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Highlands, called Hubs, with potential connectors between them, network that seeks to protect and connect the ecological and recreational ·There are approximately 4,474 miles of state roads in the PA Highlands into northern New Jersey, across New York’s Hudson Valley and into called Corridors. assets of the Pennsylvania (PA) Highlands and create close-to-home outdoor northwestern Connecticut. These eastern-most ridges of the Appalachian recreational opportunities. The trail network will be an extension of the nearly ·Within the PA Highlands there are 90,890 acres in 2 state forests Mountains form a greenbelt for the Philadelphia-New York City-Hartford Hubs are areas that have a high natural resource value such as large intact complete Highlands Trail (over 150 miles), in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area. The Highlands provide clean drinking water to more than 15 forests or abundant wildlife and little fragmentation such as forests or farmland Highlands and will cover over 100 miles in the PA Highlands. Creating the trail ·There are 30,976 acres of state game lands in the PA Highlands million people and are home to over 250 endangered, threatened, and rare broken up by large developments. Hubs are both undisturbed natural lands and network will include linking existing trails with new trail segments including species. adjacent protected lands such as state parks, forests or game lands. loops and spur trails. The overall network will provide communities with ·The 12 state parks that intersect the PA Highlands contain approximately 30,838 physical connections to natural areas and health benefit opportunities acres Pennsylvania Highlands Corridors are the best potential lands to connect the Hubs. While Corridors are associated with outdoor recreation in those natural areas. The trail network will The nearly 1.9 million-acre Pennsylvania Highlands region includes 13 counties, not necessarily natural or protected lands they are important as they connect aid in implementing the greenway vision by acting as a corridor that will ·The PA Highlands Greenway Project found 450,214 acres of hub lands, areas from Northampton in the northeast, to Adams in the southwest. The Pennsylvania Hubs and often provide the most practical routes for animals to travel between connect “hubs” of undisturbed natural lands and adjacent protected lands that have a high natural resource value such as large intact forests or abundant Highlands Greenway Map was designed to create a clear identity for the region, core habitat areas. throughout the greenway. wildlife while illustrating a practical greenway of natural lands and corridors. The highest priority ecological lands with the least development disturbances are identified as A Critical Treasure is a recognized priority area for additional land conservation ·There were 488,346 acres of identified corridors, lands that are the least Hubs, while the best ecological paths between the Hubs are defined as the efforts in the Highlands that has significant value for open space preservation, disturbed and the best potential lands available to unite core conservation areas Corridors. watershed protection, habitats for plants or wildlife, or outdoor recreation. ·The PA Highlands Greenway Project contains 149,808 acres of protected lands, A Roadmap For Protection Natural Lands are landscapes that are sparsely developed rural areas, while lands that are under existing exemptions from development This map shows the significance of the Pennsylvania Highlands both within the developed lands are those areas that do fall within an intensely developed urban N e w state and also as part of the greater four-state physiographic region. It can be setting. Allentown-Bethlehem ·Found within the PA Highlands are 833,557 acres of natural lands, undisturbed used as a blueprint for conserving a wide range of natural and recreational land such as forest and open space resources, such as water supplies, biodiversity and trails. By mapping large For more information about AMC's Greenway Project visit: J e r s e y interior forest blocks, high quality water bodies and other natural resources found www.outdoors.org/PA_Highlands Northampton 2 9 )" ·Natural Lands Trust designated Important Bird Areas makeup 61,366 acres in in the Pennsylvania Highlands we can protect them. )" Highlands )"1 South D the PA Highlands 78 3 ela )" wa ¨¦§ Mountain )"4 re "5 R ) iv e r )"15 )"8 )"6 )"13 )"7 Oley Hills 14 )" "11 )"18 ) )"10 Reading )"19 Unami Hills )"12 )"24 )"25 Harrisburg Furnace Hills Big 29 Woods )" 17 )"16 Sand Hills )" ¨¦§76 )"23 )"20 ¤£422 ¨¦§476 )"26 76 ¨¦§ )"27 )"22 Conewago Whiskey Springs Mountains Uplands Welsh 21 Schuylkill R Mountain )" iv )"30 er Lancaster )"28 S u sq 15 u ¤£ e h a Philadelphia 81 n ¨¦§ n York a 30 R ¤£ 31 iv )" e r )"32 South Mountain Faces )"33 ¤£30 ver re R wa la De ¨¦§83 P e n n s y l v a n i a D e l a w a r e M a r y l a n d Critical Treasure Map Number Critical Treasure Map Number Bougher Hill 1 Pine Creek Watershed 18 The Pennsylvania Highlands Greenway Stoudt's Valley 2 Oley Valley 19 (! NY Cooks Creek Watershed 3 Schuylkill River Watershed 20 MA Boston USFS Highlands Boundary Durham Mine 4 Great Marsh 21 )"1 Critical Treasures Protected Lands NY Rapp Creek 5 North Branch French Creek Watershed 22 CT AMC Highlands Boundary ¤£ §¨¦ Major Roads Natural Lands aa Tinicum Creek 6 Birdsboro Waters 23 ee (! States ss NJ rr Hartford nn dd Tohickon Creek 7 Mt Penn 24 AA l aa PA Highlands Boundary Developed Areas ss hh l PA dd H ii gg Haycock Mountain 8 Neversink Mt. 25 nn AA H © aa (! PP Lower Lehigh Valley Reach of the Lehigh River 9 Hay Creek Watershed 26 Hubs Water Bodies hh ll i gg New York HH i Rock Hill 10 Glen Morgan Lake 27 Corridors County Boundary NJ Quakertown Swamp 11 New Holland Waters 28 (! Ridge Valley Creek 12 Middle Creek WMA 29 State Boundary Philadelphia Important Bird Areas MD Hosensack Swamp 13 White Rocks 30 MD (! Upper Perkiomen Watershed 14 Buchanan Valley 31 Baltimore WV VA DE VA (! Little Lehigh Creek Watershed 15 The Narrows 32 Miles Washington DC Spring Mountain 16 Fruitbelt 33 0 10 20 40 Stone Hill 17.
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