The West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing (WVNET) provides central computing facilities linking the campus computing systems to colleges and universities throughout the state. WVNET also provides access to educational and research institutions all over the world. Forestry faculty, staff, and graduate students can access WVNET from their computer systems in the Division. The major computing hardware at WVNET includes DEC Systems – Open VMS, IMB Systems Thinking Machines Supercomputer. WVNET offers several programming languages and data analysis systems. Consultants and technicians are available to help with system access, programming, and data analysis problems, and WVNET provides a continuing series of training shortcourses for faculty and graduate students who address topics from using the Internet to data management and analysis applications.

The WVU Office of Information Technology (WVU-OIT) provides educational and administrative computing information to the West Virginia University community. The vision for WVU-OIT is to empower the University community through information technology, to enrich the academic experience for students, and to strengthen the ability of faculty and staff to teach, conduct research, and to provide public service throughout West Virginia and beyond.

The Division of Forestry and Natural Resources made vast improvements in technology in recent years to keep up with employee, student, and faculty demands. Every office, classroom, and laboratory is equipped with a fiber-optic system for computer networking, allowing for fast data exchange between computing systems and data download. Room 317 was renovated in 2005 and houses 36 state-of-the-art computers, making it the largest computer facility in the Davis College. The Division has also ensured that faculty computing facilities are up-to-date and well maintained.

The Division currently has one general student use computer lab (Room 324) with 25 computers that were updated in 2007. For graduate student use, the Division of Forestry provides a GIS Lab, which contains nine computers that are specifically designed for research projects, one HP 2500 CP DesignJet Plotter, and one HP Colored LaserJet Printer. Each computer contains 250GB of hard-drive space, 3.25 GB of SDRAM, 3.16 GHz Intel Core Dual Processor, and ESRI ArcGIS software installed on them, among other programming and natural resource programs. These computers provide our graduate students with the necessary resources to complete their research projects. The GIS Interpretation Laboratory (Room 317) has been used by all programs as a lecture/technology room. This classroom seats 40 students for lectures, and contains 36 computers for laboratory exercises. Currently, this room is being used to teach Remote Sensing, Computer Applications in Forestry, Interpretive Graphics, and segments of other courses. These computers are equipped with 160GB Hard-drives, 2.0 GB of RAM, and 3.6GHz Pentium 4 Processors with statistical, geospatial and other application packages installed, which allow our students to complete their projects in a timely manner. This room also provides an area to conduct workshops and outreach programs to the public on campus. In addition, the Division provides Trimble GeoExplorer 3 and XT GPS units for hands-on training in gathering spatial data in the field, and to assist graduate students in gathering data for their research. Computer labs are also available to students in Allen Hall, Towers Residence Hall, Agricultural Science Building, Colson Hall, and the Mountainlair.