Melvern held its second community meeting on November 27th, 2006, in the Melvern Community Center.  The focus of the evening was to discuss the process for identifying community assets and to build resource assessment teams. 

By using their individual expertise and a little old-fashioned detective work, these community teams will identify resources within several categories—including water, wildlife, native plants, history and culture, infrastructure, and land use.  Once they have gathered necessary information, the teams will begin coming up with ideas for developing and conserving these important assets. 

Each community is a unique living system with its own unique interests, needs, and values.  By evaluating its critical resources and planning for its future, Melvern is committed to keeping this vital system healthy.

 A copy of Melvern’s Assessment Team Assignments can be found in the Documents column to the right.

Melvern’s first public meeting was held on Saturday, November 4, 2006, at the Melvern Community Center, and a good crowd of community members turned out to learn more about the Healthy Ecosystems project and discuss what community members value most about Melvern, as well as what they would like to see improve.

 Melvern also invited a new group of leaders to the Melvern Fall Festival on October 28, 2006. The Melvern PRIDE Youth Group worked with Margie Beatty on some fun water activities for youth. There were also water-related models, as well as information about the “Citizen Science” test kits and how to receive test kit training to monitor water quality on your farm.  

Danny Rice will also be working with Melvern High School students this year on a local water quality monitoring program. A big thanks goes out to the Melvern educators for volunteering their time and expertise to help Melvern’s youth understand the importance of water quality!

Important Documents for Melvern

  Melvern Assessment Teams (PDF format, 54 KB)

  Native Plant Assessment (Word format, 3.6 MB)

  Wildlife Assessment (Word format, 289 KB)

  Built Infrastructure Assessment (Word format, 109 KB)

  Historical-Cultural Assessment (Word format, 126 KB)

  Land Use Assessment (Word format, 3.6 MB)

  Water Assessment (Word format, 409 KB)

Note:  All documents are provided in either Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format.  Adobe Reader can be downloaded free of charge at Adobe.com.