What is a Friends Group?
Friends are people like you, citizens of all ages, who volunteer their time, services and support to enhance our state park and forest systems. Friends groups form for a variety of reasons but, perhaps most importantly, their members understand the value of their state park or forest and share a common goal to make that park or forest the best in the Commonwealth. Working with PPFF, the objectives of the chapter are cooperatively crafted by the citizens and organizations that come together to form such a group and the state park or forest manager.
What do Friends Groups do?
Every year they provide tens of thousands of volunteer hours working to improve and enhance state parks and forests. Friends groups connect people to the natural places of Pennsylvania while enhancing the role of public lands in local communities. View gallery below to see PPFF Chapters at work. (click a photo to see full size image and caption)
How do I start a Friends Group?
The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation (PPFF) assists motivated citizens, businesses, and local organizations in forming partnerships and friends groups to support a state owned park, forest, natural area or other such entity. Working with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources (DCNR), the government agency with ultimate responsibility for these state lands, the PPFF will assist those interested in creating a partnership or friends group with a state park or forest. To find our more check out our Creating a Friends Group document. To download the Chapter Manual, click here.
