  In this paper, we construct high order energy dissipative and conservative
local discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Fornberg-Whitham type equations.
We give the proofs for the dissipation and conservation for related
conservative quantities. The corresponding error estimates are proved for the
proposed schemes. The capability of our schemes for different types of
solutions is shown via several numerical experiments. The dissipative schemes
have good behavior for shock solutions, while for a long time approximation,
the conservative schemes can reduce the shape error and the decay of amplitude
significantly
