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King Forest

During 2002-2003, the Tennessee Urban Forestry Council, through the USDA and Tennessee Department of Agriculture, Forestry Division, funded several major projects in King Forest. All trees on campus larger than 1 inch in diameter were measured for location, size and type. 5511 trees in all! Visit the King Forest site now.

Collaboration through Appalachian Watershed Studies

The purpose of the CAWS project is to enhance ecology education at several small Appalachian colleges and universities by collaborative study of ecosystems using the small watershed approach. Each of the participating schools maintains and monitors a small watershed for research and teaching purposes.

The CAWS project began as a spinoff of the ROCA project. ROCA involved three schools (Ferrum College, University of the South, and WV Wesleyan College) in collaboration with the University of Maryland's Appalachian Laboratory. In 2001, with the aid of a grant from the Mellon Foundation and the Appalachian College Association, three other institutions were added to the network (Lindsey Wilson, Montreat, and Davis and Elkins Colleges). King College joined the consortium in 2002.