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Learn more about Tap Your Potential: A Training to Grow Farmer Leadership in Watershed Management and how you can incorporate it into your programming to engage farmers in efforts to improve water quality and land health. You'll hear from the curriculum's creators and from their collaborators from Beaver Watershed Alliance and American Farmland Trust who […]
Wisconsin may be known as the dairy state, but ties to swine production in Wisconsin run deep. Historically, immigrant populations demanded pork for the manufacture of sausage and other products, leading to as much as 80% of all Wisconsin farms having pigs on the farm in the early twentieth century. Pig farming looks different today […]
Even when we don't recognize them, many of our local government programs are built on structures of power and privilege. This webinar will help identify and break down these structures in the pursuit of developing more equitable and inclusive local governments. During the webinar, you¿ll develop a shared understanding of concepts related to deconstructing inequitable […]
Predicting when and where conditions are ripe for harmful algal blooms would ideally reduce the bloom’s impact on water quality and mitigation costs, so why is harmful algal bloom prediction so complex? Tune into our upcoming webinar to hear from Justin Chaffin, Senior Researcher and Research Coordinator at Ohio State University and Stone Laboratory and […]
Join us for this free online webinar to learn how you should plan for your community garden before a shovel hits the dirt. In this webinar we will: Provide a planning checklist for you to use to successfully set up and sustain your community garden. Examine the environmental impact of your garden’s rules and guidelines. […]
Will your community be resilient in the face of more severe weather events and other challenges brought on by climate change? During this session, you'll gain planning tools, resources, and strategies to build community resilience. You'll hear from a team of UW-Madison, Division of Extension educators who will share practical tools and examples of effective […]
Farmland protection is critical to preserving our ability to grow food for our communities in the future, among many other benefits including mitigating climate change and that sustainable agriculture can provide. Proactively protecting farmland is more important now more than ever, given accelerating farmland loss and increasing urban development pressure on peri-urban and rural landscapes […]
People are the ultimate drivers of change. That is no exception when it comes to achieving clean water and conservation goals in the Midwest. Human capital, or an individual’s skills and confidence to perform their job, is a critical ingredient of the power of people. Yet, in watershed management, it is a limiting and often […]
In this online meeting, we will provide a quick refresher on how to submit your monitoring data into SWIMS. We will share our screen and walk through the data submission process, show you the most common data submission errors, and open it up for questions! Info here.
UW–Madison Division of Extension, Outagamie County Place: Liberty Hall 800 Eisenhower Dr, Kimberly Cost: $50/person – meeting & meal CEUs: The meeting counts towards three hours of CEU credits in pest management for certified crop advisors Information will be supplied to all registered participants. The packet will include handouts and a copy of the “A3646 Pest Management […]
This free, virtual meet-up series is a peer-learning opportunity for watershed professionals to share ideas and advice for solving real-life challenges of watershed projects. If you work with farmers and communities on watershed-scale projects to improve water quality and have ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t want to recreate the wheel,” this meet-up series is […]
Join us to learn about WI Land+Water, DATCP, DNR, NRCS, etc. Presenters will provide information about programs and topics integral to successful conservation programs over the three-day training. Training resources are posted on our website which provide additional information on the programs included in this training along with other programs. Check out the draft agenda for more information. You are not […]
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