Land cover is the vegetation or other kind of material that covers the land surface.
There were no reported lands in the Conservation Reserve Program in West Virginia in 1997. Also, there was no acreage classified as rangeland. The total surface area of West Virginia is estimated to be 15,508,200 acres. Other rural lands, including farmsteads, farm structures, field windbreaks, barren land, and marshland 2. Percentage of non-federal lands 2.