Events

Annual Business Meetings | Fall Membership Meetings | Executive Council Meetings
Annual Raffle | Outings and Excursions

Annual Business Meetings

All WVAPSS members are invited to participate in the Annual Business Meeting.

2012

When: Friday, June 1, 2012
Where: West Virginia State University, Wilson Student Union, Room 134

The 2012 WVAPSS Annual Business Meeting will occur on the campus of West Virginia State University in conjunction with the WVAPSS-sponsored West Virginia Storm Water Management Workshop. This one-day professional training opportunity is open to all interested parties in the public or private sector, as well as students. Space is limited. Up to 8 CEU’s for Conservation Planning, Soil Science, and Engineering will be available upon completion of this workshop.

For more information or to register, please download the agenda and compete the registration form.

Technical Session: West Virginia Storm Water Management Workshop
9:00 to 9:30 am
Meet and Greet
Coffee and croissants

9:30 to 9:45 am
Welcome, Jared Beard, President WVAPSS

9:45 to 10:00 am
Introduction
Dr. Amir Hass, WVSU, Agricultural and Environmental Research Station
Who are the “players”? What are the best management practices (BMP’s)? Where to find technical assistance?

10:00 to 11:00 am
Sherry L. Wilkins, WV Dep. Environmental Protection, Div. Water and Waste Management
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System, or MS4, Regulations and Permitting

11:00 am to 12:00 noon
Thomas F. Elkins, Storm Water Manager, Charleston Civil Engineering Department
Storm Water Management in the Capitol City

12:00 to 1:00 pm
Box lunch

1:00 to 2:00 pm
Robert R. Dobos, Soil Scientist, National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE
West Virginia Storm Water Soil Interpretations
Web Soil Survey WSS) and Soil Data Mart(SDM)
How to rate your soil for infiltration and retention

2:00 to 2:10 pm
Karen Thomas, Research Associate
Brief History of West Virginia State University

2:10 to 2:30 pm
Walk across campus to Wallace Hall, Room 623

2:30 to 4:00 pm
Dave Kingsbury, WV State Soil Scientist, USDA-NRCS
Workshop on how to find storm water soil interpretations on Web Soil Survey and Soil Data Mart

Business Meeting
7:00 pm
West Virginia State University, Wilson Student Union, Room 134

Field Tour
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Tour of three Storm Water BMP’s in the downtown Charleston area
8:00 am to 12:00 noon

2011

When: Friday, April 8, 2011
Where: West Virginia University Evansdale Campus

Technical Session
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Room G31 Agricultural Sciences Building

Speakers:
Louis McDonald, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry and Soil Fertility
Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University

Eugenia M. Pena-Yewtukhiw, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Soil Science
Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University

Jeff Skousen, Ph.D.
Extension Specialist-Land Reclamation
Professor of Soil Science
Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University

Nicolas P. Zegre, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Forest Resources Management
Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, West Virginia University

Business Meeting
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Room G31 Agricultural Sciences Building

Social Gathering
6:30 pm - ??
Mountain State Brewing Company
54 Clay Street
(Located in the Warf district next to Oliverio’s)

Field Tour
Saturday April 9, 2011
Coopers Rock State Forest
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

2010

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2004

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2003

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2002

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2001

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Fall Membership Meetings

All members of WVAPSS are invited to attend the Fall Membership Meeting. This meeting is normally held each year in October, in conjunction with the West Virginia Conservation Partnership Conference in Charleston, WV.

2010

When: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, from 2:30 - 3:30 PM
Where: West Virginia Conservation Partnership Conference, Charleston, WV

The conference program is here.

The Golden Auger Award will be presented in a session from 1:30 - 2:10 PM.

The WVAPSS membership meeting will be held from 2:30 - 3:30 PM. The agenda is available here.

Please note that members will NOT have to pay a registration fee if they attend ONLY the awards session and the WVAPSS meeting. WVAPSS members will still need to fill out a registration form. Either print this form and bring it with you, or you can fill one out when you check in. Please indicate "fees waived-WVAPSS member attending award session and business meeting only" on your registration form.

Minutes from past Fall Membership meetings are available here, listed by date:

• October 27, 2010
• October 27, 2009

Executive Council Meetings

The Executive Council serves as the trustees of WVAPSS. The Executive Council has seven members: the President, the Past–President, the Vice–President, the Secretary–Treasurer, and the three Standing Committee chairs.

The Executive Council has at least two Executive Council meetings each year, one being held within sixty (60) days after the annual meeting for installation of officers. Special Executive Council meetings may be called by the President or upon petition by the Executive Council.

Minutes from past Executive Council meetings are available here, listed by date:

• January 25, 2011 (teleconfernce)
• June 29, 2010
• March 10, 2010 (teleconfernce)
• March 3, 2010
• September 9, 2009 (teleconference)
• January 28, 2008

Annual Raffle

The annual WVAPSS raffle provides financial assistance to students across West Virginia in soil conservation pursuits. This includes support for the WVU Soils Team, as well as sponsorship of the WV Grassland Evaluation Contest and WV Envirothon. The prize available this year in the 2012 annual fundraising raffle is a West Virginia Lifetime Combination Hunting, Trapping and Fishing (Class AB-L). The winner may choose to receive either an adult license, which has a value of $805.00, or and infant license, which has a value of $402.50.

Tickets for the 2012 annual fundraising raffle are on sale now. Tickets are $5 each, or 5 for $20. Please contact Rob Pate, (304)-673-4545, or any member of WVAPSS to purchase tickets.

Rules

1. Only five hundred tickets will be sold. Each ticket has two numbers, randomly selected from 000 – 999, such that every ticket has two chances to win.
2. The winning number will be taken from the West Virginia Lottery’s Daily 3 drawn at 7:00 p.m. on April 16, 2012, a week before spring turkey season.
3. All taxes and related fees will be paid by WVAPSS.
4. The winner will be notified by telephone. The winner will be required to complete an application, which is available from any DNR office or any license agent, and WVAPSS will pay the license fee (either $805.00 for an adult lifetime license, or $402.50 for an infant lifetime license).
5. The winner can obtain the lifetime license in their name, or choose a friend or relative to receive the license.
6. In the event that the winning number is unsold, the next day’s daily three number will be used, until a winning ticket is chosen.
7. All unsold tickets become the property of WVAPSS.

Previous Raffles

2009
The prize in the 2009 annual fundraising raffle was a beautiful quilt made by Kathy Conway, mother of WVAPSS President Stephanie Connolly. The quilt depicts many of the state symbols of West Virginia, including the state flag, the state motto ("Montani Semper Liberi"), the state bird (northern cardinal), the state tree (sugar maple), the state flower (rhododendron), the state mammal (black bear), and the state insect (honey bee). Click on the image on the right to see a larger view of this beautiful, hand-crafted quilt.

2011
There were three prizes available in the 2011 annual fundraising raffle:

• Rifle (.243 caliber Reminginton Model 700 SPS Camo)
• Black cherry fireplace mantel made by Charles Delp and Rob Pate
• $100 gift certificate for West Viriginia State Parks

Outings and Excursions

Annual Float Trip sponsored by WVAPSS and the WV Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society (Saturday, May 8, 2010)

Members of both organizations met at the Big Bend Campground in Smoke Hole Canyon on Friday night for a pot luck dinner, with boats leaving the campground early Saturday morning for an all-day float trip.

Smithsonian Soils Exhibit (July 18-19, 2008)

WVAPSS and the West Virginia Chapter of the Soils and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) teamed up to sponsor a trip to the new soils exhibit, titled "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil," at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. In what had been an exciting year for both organizations, members of WVAPSS and SWCS were there for the opening of the much anticipated soils exhibit. Information about the exhibit may be found here. WVAPSS held their business meeting following the visit to the soil exhibit.