What's at Stake
in keeping a good balance between growth and green in Pike County?

The exceptional water quality of our drinking water, streams, and lakes. As forests are cleared, roads built, and more impervious surface added, the result will be decreased water quality for Pike County’s streams, lakes, and groundwater.

Pike’s abundant wildlife habitat supports a diversity of animals and plants. As habitat is converted, wildlife populations will decline, impacting fishing, hunting, outdoor recreation, and our tourist economy.

Pike’s abundant forests, rivers, and wildlife make us the closest rural tourism destination for 10,000,000 urban residents. Our economic niche, being the greenest county close to major urban centers, may be lost without proper planning.

Pike County’s picturesque towns and villages lose their rural character as sprawl, strip malls, and increased traffic encroach.

Our working landscape with its few remaining farms, productive forests, busy summer camps and diverse outdoor clubs will quickly be converted to other uses as escalating costs force landowners to sell.

Scenic views along roads, ridges, and rivers will be lost.

The bottom line, without good planning, will be a decline in all Pike residents' quality of life.