Additional Resources
Community Design Team
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.
the Landscape Management Program
The Division of Plant and Soil Sciences offers undergraduate programs in Agroecology, Agronomy, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Horticulture, Environmental Protection, and Soil Science.. Students in these majors have the opportunity to study, work or assist with research in the WVU greenhouses located on the Evansdale campus, the agronomy farm, or on the organic farm located just outside Morgantown. Graduates from plant and soil sciences are in high demand, with students finding employment in various federal and state agencies, and in private industry. Graduates are well prepared for entry into many graduate fields of their choice.
The American Society of Landscape Architects
The Society’s mission is to lead, to educate, and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environments.
The West Virginia Chapter of ASLA
The West Virginia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (WVASLA) is a professional society representing members of the landscape architecture profession throughout the state of West Virginia. We are a state chapter of our National Organization, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), which represents over 25,000 members of the landscape architecture profession in the United States and its possessions, Canada, Mexico and the Islands of the Caribbean. Our purpose is to promote the profession of landscape architecture and educate the general public on the benefits and expertise practicing landscape architects can provide.
The West Virginia Botanic Garden
The West Virginia Botanic Garden (WVBG), in harmony with nature, seeks to enhance the quality of life through public enjoyment and education involving inspirational landscapes and displays of a rich variety of ornamental plants appropriate to the region.
