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Update from Friends of White's Woods - April 16, 2008
 FWW contends that WW is a park not a forest and DCNR’s legal department agrees. The Supervisors now acknowledge that any management plan must accord with Project 70 law but insist on trying to make a logging plan fit a park. They insist that a plan developed to generate “continuing township revenue by the sale of forest products” can somehow serve the recreation and conservation purposes of a park. But how can a plan optimal for one purpose be optimal for another, very different purpose? A valid plan follows from clearly stated and agreed upon goals. The Supervisors seem to be attempting the opposite, to use an existing plan developed for one set of goals to meet another set of, as yet undefined, goals. This is a recipe for disaster. It would be better to have no plan than one purported to be for the health of the park but developed for the health of a commercial forest.
The Supervisors continue to ignore the concerns of the community and refuse to establish communication that could lead to the park stewardship plan we all desire. We all agree that a desirable plan would maintain the health of White’s Woods thereby allowing the community to enjoy this unique community resource for generations to come. Why won’t the Supervisors help develop such a plan?
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"People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside."
-Jane Goodall
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