Hawk Mountain
Mountain ridge in the Appalachian Mountain chain
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::summary Mountain ridge in the Appalachian Mountain chain ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Hawk Mountain |
| photo | Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, PA - North Lookout.jpg |
| photo_caption | View of Hawk Mountain from Hawk Mountain Sanctuary's North Lookout in Pennsylvania |
| elevation_ft | 1521 |
| elevation_ref | {{cite peakbagger |
| pid | 7562 |
| name | Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania |
| access-date | 2008-08-30 }} |
| prominence_ft | 181 |
| prominence_ref | |
| parent_peak | The Pinnacle |
| range | Blue Mountain |
| location | Berks / Schuylkill counties, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| map | USA Pennsylvania#USA |
| label_position | bottom |
| coordinates | |
| coordinates_ref | |
| topo | USGS New Ringgold |
| easiest_route | Lookout Trail (hike) {{Cite web |
| url | http://hawkmountain.org/index.php?pr=Hiking |
| title | Welcome to Hawk Mountain - Hiking |
| work | Hawk Mountain Sanctuary website |
| access-date | 2008-08-30 |
| url-status | dead |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20081022175846/http://www.hawkmountain.org/index.php?pr=Hiking |
| archive-date | 2008-10-22 |
| :: |
| name = Hawk Mountain | photo = Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, PA - North Lookout.jpg | photo_caption = View of Hawk Mountain from Hawk Mountain Sanctuary's North Lookout in Pennsylvania | elevation_ft = 1521 | elevation_ref = {{cite peakbagger | pid = 7562 | name = Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania | access-date = 2008-08-30 }} | prominence_ft = 181 | prominence_ref = | parent_peak = The Pinnacle | range = Blue Mountain | listing = | location = Berks / Schuylkill counties, Pennsylvania, U.S. | map = USA Pennsylvania#USA | range_coordinates = | label_position = bottom | coordinates = | coordinates_ref = | topo = USGS New Ringgold | type = | age = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = Lookout Trail (hike) {{Cite web |url = http://hawkmountain.org/index.php?pr=Hiking |title = Welcome to Hawk Mountain - Hiking |work = Hawk Mountain Sanctuary website |access-date = 2008-08-30 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081022175846/http://www.hawkmountain.org/index.php?pr=Hiking |archive-date = 2008-10-22
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 acre of protected private and public land, including the 2,600 acre Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.{{cite web |url = http://www.hawkmountain.org/index.php?pr=The_Sanctuary |title = The Hawk Mountain Landscape |year = 2007 |access-date = 18 July 2011
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".
History
The mountain was previously called North Mountain because it is across the Lehigh Valley from South Mountain.{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XRsC_EBRPEwC&pg=PA53 |title = Appalachian Trail Names: Origins of Place Names Along the AT |author = Lillard, David |publisher = Stackpole Books |year = 2002 |isbn = 0-8117-2672-X |page = 53 |access-date = 2017-09-17 In 1929, the Pennsylvania Game Commission offered hunters $5 for every goshawk shot during migrating season,{{cite web |url = http://hawkmountain.org/media/Chronology_Updated.pdf |title = Hawk Mountain Chronology |date = March 2009 |access-date = 18 July 2011 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110501112453/http://hawkmountain.org/media/Chronology_Updated.pdf |archive-date = 1 May 2011
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.
In 1934, after decades of hawk and eagle slaughter on the ridge, Rosalie Edge unilaterally ended the annual shoot by buying the property, changing the name of the mountain to the present one, and turning it into a sanctuary. Hawk Mountain Sanctuary was incorporated in 1938 and began year-round operations in 1946.
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 Patrol
The mountain is also home to the Hawk Mountain Council and Hawk Mountain Camp and the Civil Air Patrol's Colonel Phillip Neuweiler Ranger Training Facility known as the Hawk Mountain Ranger School.
Gallery
File:Overlook - Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, PA.jpg|Hawk Mountain viewed from a rocky overlook at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Image:River of rocks at the Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania 2007.jpg|River of Rocks
References
References
- {{cite gnis
- "Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation".
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