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This is what the Indiana Forest Alliance says about the Haverstick Woods site:
“Indiana Forest Alliance and Driftwood Hills Neighborhood understand it is not feasible at this point to advocate for no development on the site. So, we are advocating for a development that maintains the residential character of the neighborhood and preserves as much forested green space as possible.”
The site has been logged and development cannot be prevented, yet the Indiana Forest Alliance is advocating for development that “maintains the residential character” of a busy mixed-use corridor. They have zero regard for the forests & farms that will be razed if Haverstick Woods isn’t built up to be as dense as possible. It’s ironic.
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I am sympathetic and generally supportive of protecting forests and wetlands, but it’s hard for me to take the Indiana Forest Alliance seriously. They seem most interested in preserving property values.
In reply to Robert H., a portion of the Haverstick Creek Woods has already been largely cleared. This is the portion slated for development for which the Indiana Forest Alliance (IFA) has thus urged a type of development that will preserve the remaining trees to the greatest possible extent. In any case, the land is privately owned and we don’t pressure property owners to sell against their will. Rather, we seek to assist them when preservation is in the mutual interest of the owner and the City.
We firmly reject Robert H.’s imputation that the IFA is “most interested in preserving property values”. The foremost objective of the IFA is to preserve forests and we do this without regard for property values. Our only interest here is in preserving urban forests and the benefits they provide to the public. There is nothing ironic in our efforts. What is ironic is that a reader sees intuitively the benefits of forest preservation to the surrounding community, and yet we struggle to get decision makers to realize that these investments are indeed a double-win that makes ecological and financial sense. It is also ironic that our City has close to 16,000 uninhabitable homes, plus an alarmingly high number of interstate-owned single-family rentals which sit unoccupied, and yet we are clearing more forest for housing. [LK1] [LK2] We hope to see more progress on urban forest preservation, and thus we deeply appreciate the City-County Councilors who are working with us on this issue and also recognize the Hogsett administration for their historic first appropriation of funds for urban forests. Regards, Jonathan Munro, IFA Board Member and Director of “Forests for Indy”.
A practice evolution in the arguments of NIMBYism.
Since before WWII this city has never protected the forests, and has always sided with the developers, no matter how much woods and forests would be destroyed in the name of economic development. This city has also never properly funded any efforts for urban forestry, the protection of our forests, and especially the maintenance of our trees and forests. Verbal claims were made that they would, but they never made the priority lists, always at the bottom and the first to be cut for budget reasons.
This Alliance needs to keep trying and working at it, but they will need private funding and private ownership to make any real impact. Similar to the Nature Conservancy and the Land Trust, etc., are probably the only methods to actually protect what’s left of our forests, purchase them with private funds and maintain them the same. Indy Parks and DPW can never be trusted for the job, and they will never allocate the funds if they even tried.
Forests are a public good, and a smart city should find a will and a way
Forests are a public good, and a smart city should find a will and a way
Forests are a public good, and a smart city should find a will and a way