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Pennsylvania Highlands RegionThe Pennsylvania Highlands region is a section of the Applachian mountains located in Eastern Pennsylvania frequently cited as a candidate for extensive ecological preservation. The heavily forested region is seen as ecologically significant because, among other things, its dense forests serve to protect and supply clean drinking water to more than 15 million people, including large portions of both New Jersey and New York. The Pennsylvania Highlands also possess acknowledgement as a rural vacationing area and have even been recognized by the U.S. Forest Service as a "landscape of national significance" and by the State of New Jersey as a "Special Resource Area", none of which helps to protect it from the urban sprawl which threatens its natural resources each year. http://www.highlandscoalition.org/thehighlands.htm External Links
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