The West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station is relatively broad in research discipline, with programs in child development, interior design, textiles and fashion merchandising, landscape architecture, human nutrition and foods, forest resource management, wood science, parks and recreation and wildlife management, in addition to the more typical disciplines in animal, plant and soil sciences, agricultural economics, and agricultural education.  Our budget is modest at approximately $3million in federal formula funding, $3 million in matching state support, and about $5 million in external funding.  The Station supports approximately 35 FTE faculty research positions, 25 FTE technical positions, 35 clerical and farm/forest worker positions and 40 professional support positions (mostly graduate students).  The Station operates seven farms and two forests which support faculty research.  Four are sufficiently close to the University to be used extensively to support academic programs in addition to research.  The recent federal administrative assault on formula funding of research in agriculture and forestry puts at serious risk the personnel infrastructure of many small to moderate sized Stations and thereby threatens their existence.