West Virginia Forestry Association
PO Box 718
Ripley, WV 25271-0718
304-372-1955
The project will increase information to the general public about forestry in West Virginia and showcase the renewable hardwood forests of the Appalachian region via the State’s television markets, thereby, introducing a broader audience to the benefits of the forest resource and its positive contribution to the State’s economy.
The goals for the project are:
1. To expand and accelerate public awareness, pave the way for new private investment, and create new jobs.
2. To retain the economic competitiveness of the state's primary and secondary hardwood industries.
3. To complement the West Virginia Forestry Association's ongoing pubic education campaign.
4. To build public understanding of the contribution that forestry provides to West Virginia's economy.
5. To generate a sense of pride in the forest resource and businesses it sustains.
6. To shape a vision of a future made brighter through greater investments in forestry.
US Forest Service Grant
$ 100,000
Cooperative Funding
$ 100,000
Total
$ 200,000
The project focused on public education and understanding about West Virginia’s forests and the importance and benefits these forest are to the state. Specific project activities included the development of several television and radio clips. The television clips ran 1,111 times and the radio clips ran 2,832 times.
