The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
Land Use Toolbox
West Virginia - You and Your Community:
What You Can Do With Others links
West
Virginia GIS Technical Center
West
Virginia GIs Technical Center,
http://wvgis.wvu.edu/
Description:
The West Virginia GIs Technical Center provides focus, direction and leadership
to users of geographic information systems (GIs), digital mapping and
remote sensing within the State of West Virginia.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
West
Virginia University
Community
Design Team,
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/crd/cdt.htm
Description:
Helping people make the most of their community is the goal of the Community
Design Team (cdt). This program brings volunteer professionals from a
variety of disciplines to your locale to assist community members in beginning
a process of laying a course for the future. Teams might include landscape
architects, planners, geographers, architects, engineers, historians,
and economic development experts. The mix will depend upon the needs of
the locality and other factors.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
West
Virginia University
Community
Resources and Economic Development,
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/crd/index.htm
Description:
The West Virginia University Extension Service's Center for Community
Resources and Economic Development conducts research and provides educational
assistance to local communities throughout the state. These activities
are in the areas of business retention and expansion, entrepreneurship
development, economic development networks, strategic planning, local
government finance and special studies of socio-economic trends.
Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
West
Virginia University
Land
Use/Land Cover Mapping Project,
http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/nrac/LULC.html
Description:
The West Virginia Land Cover/ Land Use Mapping Project is intended to
provide low cost current land cover and land use information to state
agencies, local and regional organizations, development authorities, planning
commissions, and utility boards in West Virginia and the Appalachian Region.
In addition, new imagery can be acquired using a variety of technologies
to any specific image scale, season, resolution, and registration requirements.
The project can provide data in formats and to specifications established
by the participating organization using the best existing or new imagery.
Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Friends
of Deckers Creek
Friends
of Deckers Creek,
http://www.deckerscreek.org/
Description:
Friends of Deckers Creek works to revitalize the Deckers Creek watershed
and to restore the creek to a viable aquatic habitat. Through our successes,
residents are seeing the possibility of fishing and swimming in the creek
once more.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
University
of Maryland
Mid-Atlantic
RESAC,
http://www.geog.umd.edu/resac/
Description:
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science Applications Center (RESAC) is
one of 7 regional centers funded by NASA's Earth Science Applications
Program. The Mid-Atlantic RESAC leverages the UMD Geography Department's
expertise in satellite remote sensing and the work of a diverse consortium
of 36 partners in Government, Academia, Industry and NGOs to address applications
of regional significance.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
West
Virginia Environmental Council
West
Virginia Environmental Council,
http://www.wvecouncil.org/
Description:
The mission of the West Virginia Environmental Council is to facilitate
communication and cooperation among citizens in promoting environmental
protection in West Virginia, to assist in organizing grass roots groups,
to facilitate interaction among established environmental organizations,
and to correspond with all appropriate local, state, and federal agencies
involved in the management of West Virginia's environment.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
NERCRD ©2004
The Toolbox is a joint effort of The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD)
and Penn State Cooperative Extension in Adams County.
This page was last updated on July 13, 2005.
For questions, suggestions or to report broken links, please contact NERCRD: nercrd@psu.edu.