Venues

National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown WV

The National Conservation Training Center trains and educates natural resource managers to accomplish our common goal of conserving fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats. As the "home of the Fish and Wildlife Service," NCTC brings exceptional training and education opportunities to Service employees and others.

NCTC is a gathering place where conservation professionals from all sectors can learn together in an environment especially designed for them. Government, non-profit organizations, and corporations can come together in a non-threatening, collaborative setting to learn new skills, share perspectives, break down barriers, establish networks, find common ground, and move toward field-based solutions built on consensus and mutual interest.

Located approximately 75 miles from Washington, D.C., the NCTC campus provides full-service residential facilities, complemented by professional staff, cutting-edge programs and curricula, and the most advanced technology available.

NCTC offers state-of-the art conference facilities, video projection, seminar and workshop spaces, catering, accommodation, training and parking facilities.

USFWS, NCTC,

Rt 1,

Box 166,

Shepherdstown, WV 25443.

(304) 876 1600

Shepherd College, Shepherdstown WV

Shepherd College is a state-supported institution within the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. From its beginnings over a century ago, the College has evolved into a comprehensive center of higher learning, serving a number of related, yet distinct roles:

• The College offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, and bachelor of science degrees in a wide range of fields, encompassing the liberal arts, business administration, teacher education, the social and natural sciences, and other career-oriented areas.
• The College offers a diverse selection of programs leading to associate's degrees. There is continual planning to expand further the variety of career-oriented programs available to students whose immediate objective is not a baccalaureate degree.
• The College provides credit courses for individuals with no degree aspirations, but who seek to broaden and update their knowledge in either familiar or new fields of intellectual endeavor.
• For the northern Shenandoah Valley region as a whole, the College is a center for noncredit continuing education, public service, and convenient citizen access to extensive programs in art, music, athletics, and other areas of public interest.

Shepherd College has a responsibility to extend its resources beyond the campus, bringing higher education closer to those who seek it. The College has an administrative center in Petersburg, West Virginia, to serve the South Branch Valley counties of the state. Courses are offered regularly at locations away from Shepherdstown, providing college-level study to people throughout eastern West Virginia and the surrounding region.

Shepherd College offers a number of conference, workshop and seminar spaces, with video projection capability.

P.O. Box 3210

Shepherdstown,

West Virginia

25443

(304) 876 5000

Sheperdstown Opera House, Shepherdstown WV

The Shepherdstown Opera House, one of the nation's oldest movie theatres, first begin showing films in 1909, drawing crowds from afar to see the flickering silent films accompanied by the obligatory piano player and a Moler pipe organ. The first theatre in the area to make the transition to sound, the Opera House began showing "talkies" in 1928 and operated continuously until 1958, when it was closed and abandoned. It sat vacant and neglected until owner's Pam and Rusty Berry completed a two-year renovation and reopened the historic theatre in 1992. Once again, the Opera House sparkles with life, using the finest projection and sound systems available to entertain a new generation with the best movies being made today.

The Opera House offers high-quality 35 mm projection and Dolby Sound systems, refreshments and comfortable seating..