[2] There are thirty-five sites located in the Hopewell Big Woods that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Led by French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust, the Hopewell Big Woods Partnership is an organizational network of over thirty government agencies, municipal entities, private non-profits, local businesses, individual landowners and other regional stakeholders interested in the conservation of the Hopewell Big Woods.

[3] The Partnership seeks to protect the many natural, cultural, and historic resources while encouraging recreation and economic development.

The plan attempts to utilize the region’s “natural assets and cultural history as a catalyst for: saving historic structures; conserving the countryside; informing the region’s growing number of residents about the recreational facilities, preserves, and historic and cultural sites; attracting tourism; and, in turn, stimulating and supporting local economies.”[4] The Hopewell Big Woods has a number of important, rare or endangered species of plants and animals.

[5] PA Outdoor Lighting Council designated Hopewell Big Woods as Pennsylvania’s first “Night Skies Conservation Area.” Utilizing the designated title, the council plans to inform homeowners, businesses and municipal officers about the negative effects of light pollution and to provide solutions on how to reduce or prevent it.