Promoting Sustainable Residential Development
to Conserve Forestland Resources
Grant funds from the Virginia Department of Forestry have enabled our interdisciplinary project team to explore ways to encourage economically, socially, and ecologically sound subdivision developments in mountainous areas throughout Virginia.
Project goals include providing education and information for landowners, developers, planners, designers, engineers, and other interested parties -- and helping communities and individuals within Virginia to sustain productive intact farms and forests, minimize habitat fragmentation, retain high-quality views and water quality, and protect valued human resources.
This Sustainable Development of Forestlands Project illustrates the advantages of conservation-based design by learning from subdivision developments implemented with the intent to be "environmentally sound" as well as other conventional subdivision developments.
Please visit the links to the left to learn more about the project.
