Project Number: WVA00164
CRIS Number: 0190246
Forestry Heritage Trail
Investigators: Goldman,
T. L., McGill, D. W., Martin,
K. E.
Performing Department:
Forestry -- 1240
Start Date: 09/15/2001
Termination Date: 09/30/2005
Reporting period: 09/30/2001
to 12/31/2001
Progress Report:
The Forestry Heritage Trail Project officially got off the ground on November
27, 2001 when work by the Project Investigators and Project Coordinators culminated
in multistate meeting with over 80 in attendance. The participants at this meeting
represented diverse communities, agencies, forest and tourism industries, and
WVU Colleges and Extension Centers. At issue was the creation of a heritage
tourism theme based on forest and forestry heritage that could extend from the
mountain counties of Maryland down through the high mountain counties of West
Virginia. At this meeting people shared their experience of what forest heritage
means to themselves, and potentially to the communities of the region that could
benefit from increased tourism dollars resulting from a successful tourism project.
The meeting ended with the group dividing into six task groups: 1) organization
and sustainability, 2) networking and communications, 3) asset mapping, 4) interpretation,
5) business and infrastructure, and 6)marketing. These groups were slated to
meet in the early part of 2002 prior to the next full group meeting scheduled
for April 3-4, 2002.
Publications:
(No publications.)
Impact:
Increased tourism to the region.