Center Woods Complex

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Center Woods is a wooded peripheral zone of Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus located west of the Agricultural Belt and U.S. 460. This area plays a critical role in providing quality undergraduate and graduate student learning experiences, field trip destinations, and staging locations for field research for the College of Natural Resources and Environment’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation. The project will include 25,900 gross-square-feet of new office, research and laboratory, field support, and field storage spaces at Center Woods. Select demolition of outdated facilities will also occur. 

The Improve Center Woods Complex project helps further the College of Natural Resources and Environment’s strategic efforts to support the fish and wildlife conservation program. The Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation is home to nationally and internationally recognized undergraduate and graduate programs, including the only undergraduate program in fisheries management in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The applied research conducted by the faculty and students of the department directly benefits conservation of game and non-game species in the commonwealth.

The project will help assure students are equipped to take on the emerging natural resources management and conservation challenges of the 21st century including sea level rise and its impact on coastal communities as well as the continuous increasing urbanization of Virginia’s population.