The following grantees were awarded a Future Leaders of Watersheds (FLOW) grant for the year 2006-2007 by the West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service through a Learn and Serve America grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. The organizations focused on engaging youth in their community to improve watershed health. The Commission awarded more than $210,000 for the 2006-2007 year.

Friends of Deckers Creek (FODC)
Monongalia County
30 youth in middle and high school participating
“All Hands on Deckers” is a watershed education program designed to engage the youth in watershed service-learning experiences that will result in formation of a youth advisory board for FODC, enhanced scientific understanding and skills for youth concerning watershed issues and sampling. This will help recruit additional volunteers to sustain FODC.

High Rocks for Girls
Pocahontas, Nicholas and Greenbrier counties
25 girls in middle and high school participating
This project will engage girls in the rural counties of Nicholas, Pocahontas, and Greenbrier around watershed service-learning through a four-tiered watershed project. The project will allow teenage girls to learn about regional and state water resource issues and empower them to create effective community service opportunities to address watershed threats.

Mountain Resource, Conservation and Development and Indian Creek Watershed Association
Monroe County
More than 25 middle and high school youth participating
High school students in Monroe County will work to develop a watershed project book that will be tested by middle school 4-H clubs. Several school age youth with attend a four week summer camp and present water-quality data and recommendations to the County Planning Commission.

Greenbrier River Watershed Association
Greenbrier County
300 middle school students participating
Greenbrier County’s unique topography presents unique needs around their watersheds. This project will develop the middle school students’ environmental literacy, as well as perform stream bank restoration, and pollution controls.

Girl Scouts of Shawnee Council
Grant, Hardy, Mineral, Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley and Jefferson counties
Over 750 middle and high school age girls participating
The project will restore an open water emergent marsh at the White Rock Scout Camp providing girls opportunities to learn about wetland ecosystems, native species, and watersheds. The girls will also have the chance to explore and develop service-learning projects around river monitoring, seed collection, and rain gardens construction in their local communities.

Piney Creek Watershed Association
Raleigh County
Over 25 high school students participating
Youth Watershed Leadership Program is a service-learning project to educate youth on the importance of Piney Creek Watershed and Lower New River basin. Service-learning will include litter sweeps, stream assessment and monitoring, lake water quality monitoring, and education on sources of pollution.

Patch 21st Century Community Learning Centers
Roane County
30 to 40 students participating
The program will provide a three day service-learning science camp focusing on the study of the local Spring Creek watershed and water quality testing. The project raises student and community awareness about local water quality issues, provide baseline data for future water testing, and introduce students and adults to service-learning.

Olgebay Institute
Marshall, Ohio, Brooke counties
150 students participating
The program will allow students to assess, map, and sample the Upper Ohio South watershed and complete monitoring of the Buffalo, Wheeling, and Grave Creek drainages.

Web of Life (Big Laurel Learning Center)
Lincoln and Logan counties
185 to 200 youth participating
Youth at six sites in southern West Virginia communities will participate in this watershed education initiative at each of their after school programs, science classes, or summer camp programs. Project to include a litter control program, program newsletter, stream monitoring, or stream restoration.