United Natural West Virginia* is a not-for-profit voluntary association of individuals and organizations working for natural areas, resource conservation and human ecology.

• Natural areas include all living things and the resources needed to sustain their lives, now and in the near future.
• Resource conservation includes policies, research, practices, people and business activity focused on the ecological use of resources.
• Human ecology includes naturalists, environmentalists, ecologists and all other communities of people who voluntarily agree to cooperate with one another in unification of natural West Virginia.

 We purchase, lease and hold conservation easements in natural areas to hold them in public trust for preservation, conservation and ecological development. Lease and user fees pay for land acquisition and management.

 We invest in environmental businesses that are focused on resource conservation to compete with other marketplace options. Returns on our investments go toward new investments and to other non-profit organizations.

 We also invest in cooperating non-profit, non-governmental organizations that are working for natural areas, resource conservation and human ecology. We ask other organization members to join us and we invest their dues in our programs.

 To sustain our own organization programs, we rely first on membership contributions and then we offer a number of fee-based, not for-profit services to the public. For example, we sponsor and organize public environmental meetings, we administer non-profit organization finances and we sponsor and conduct environmental policy research and education studies.

The Ecology and Community programs supervise relationships between UNWV and other local, state, regional, national and international organizations.

 The Habitat program works with land and water resources owned or leased by the organization and with collaborating property owners to develop ecological operating areas in WV.

 The Plant and Animal programs works with plants and animals in or on land and water resources owned or leased by the organization and with collaborating property owners to develop ecological operating areas in WV.

 The Air, Water and Soil programs work with atmospheric, hydrologic and soil processes and related operations to maintain or improve conditions for living beings.

 Finally, the Economic Policies program guides the financing, development and evaluation of for-profit organizations that operate ecologically within the collaborative framework of UNWV.