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# The South Mountain Partnership
## We are a network of partners guiding the efforts of the South Mountain Conservation Landscape.
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The South Mountain Partnership (SMP) is a collaborative network of people and organizations protecting and promoting the agricultural, natural, cultural, and recreational resources of the region in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, and York counties of southcentral Pennsylvania. SMP is one of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) eight identified conservation landscapes.
## News
### Updates
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Updates
### 2024 South Mountain Partnership Gift Guide
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### Register for the 2025 Winter Meeting
### 2015 Season of the South Mountain Speakers Series Unveiled
## Partners
### Our Conservation Network
The South Mountain Partnership brings people together to highlight the importance of our landscape and take action to secure its future.
A Pennsylvania Conservation Landscape — we are a broad coalition of partners collaborating to conserve Landscape Resources to enrich the quality of life and sense of place of the South Mountain region’s citizens and communities.
## Upcoming Events
   Jan   25    9:00 am – 12:00 pm    
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   Jan   25    1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
   Jan   26    1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
   Jan   27    1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
   Jan   28    1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
## Grants
### Information and Application Deadline
The South Mountain Research Corps (SMRC) is seeking opportunities to support academic and student-focused research in environmental sciences, forestry, agriculture, cultural and historic resources, geology, geography, and land use planning. Linked here are four PDF documents that list potential inventory, research, and monitoring priorities that could be conducted on public or private lands within the South Mountain landscape.
The Friends of  South Mountain Partnership (FOSMP) and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy has funding available to support  initiatives within our community that further the goals of the Partnership and advance the capacity of partners throughout the region. This small-scale funding opportunity  is intended to support projects not traditionally eligible for the SMP Mini-Grant program.
The South Mountain Partnership’s Mini-Grant Program is intended to catalyze on-the-ground projects that further the goals of the Partnership, and to advance the capacity of partners to complete projects throughout the region. The Program provides funding, on a competitive basis, to projects that sustain the South Mountain landscape’s sense of place by protecting and promoting the region’s Landscape Resources.
## Our Impact
### Our work within the region
### Observation Platforms at Letort Spring Garden Preserve
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### Pathogen Testing of Adams County Waters Project, Watershed Alliance of Adams County (WAAC), Adams County
### Phillaman Run Stream Restoration Project, Greene Township, Franklin County
## Get Involved
The South Mountain Partnership works best as a network of people and organizations working toward common goals. Becoming a partner is easy and free. Our partners commit to support the vision and mission of the Partnership and participate in these ways:
* Attend Partnership meetings and events
* Read Partnership e-newsletters, communications, and reports
* Share relevant information and participate when possible
* Keep the Partnership informed of their organization’s related activities
* Increase access to the natural, cultural, and recreational resources of our region to all people while also creating a welcoming community for all partners.
The Friends of the South Mountain Partnership (FOSMP) works to ensure the South Mountain Partnership is a resilient and powerful force for good in our region by fundraising for specific programs like our Flex Grants.
Photo Credit: Jessica Mitchell
## Stay Connected
**#southmountainpartnership**
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This website was financed in part by a grant from the Community Conservation Partnerships Program, the Environmental Stewardship Fund, under the administration of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation.
The South Mountain Partnership is managed as a public-private partnership by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
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