Conservation Calendar

Looking to stay up to date on your CEUs? Have producers asking conservation-specific questions you don’t feel confident answering? Looking to host a training and want to avoid conflicts for your audience? You have come to the right place.

Explore our Conservation Calendar for information on conservation-related events and trainings hosted across Wisconsin and beyond.

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Building Scientific Understanding to Guide Native Pollinator Habitat Restoration Practices

This workshop aims to increase restoration practitioners’ understanding of the scientific foundations that guide native habitat restoration and management. This includes plant-pollinator interdependency and long-term ecosystem sustainability; why holistic approaches to habitat management are important to biodiversity; the significance of native and invasive plant species for pollinators/wildlife and to restoration outcomes; and how to translate […]

Clean Lakes 101: At-Home Water Quality Action

Join us Wednesday, November 10th to hear Katie Richgels discuss actionable ways for residents to reduce stormwater runoff from reaching the lakes. Land use and climate impacts, such as heavy rain and runoff, and other headwinds threaten our progress toward healthy lakes. Fortunately, you don’t need to live on the lakes to make a difference […]

Smart Salting for Parking Lots and Sidewalks

Free IN-PERSON training for winter maintenance professionals who remove snow, apply road salt or maintain snow removal equipment used on roads. Learn how using the right amount of salt can save time, budget and our waters. The training will include: best management practices to keep paved areas safe, benefits of using a liquid salt system, […]

Restoration for whom, by whom? Exploring the socio-political dimensions of restoration

As the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration launches into action, urgent attention is needed to the power and politics that shape the values, meanings, and science driving restoration, to enable the creation of equitable restoration initiatives. In this webinar, we adopt a feminist political ecology lens, with a focus on gendered power relations, historical awareness, […]

Wildlife Management on The Farm

From deer in crops to bio-security, wildlife can have a major effect on agriculture. We review a variety of approaches to solving ag-related wildlife problems and improving habitat for healthy wildlife populations. Info here.

Industrial Hemp – Cultivating a New Industry

Join Dr. Arianna Bozzolo, Research Director at the California Organic Center, to learn about industrial hemp and explore the future of this new industry and its research priorities. Info here. 

Agroforestry Workshop: Introducing Forest Farming and Silvopasture to the Small Farms Community

This free webinar will explore some of the different ways the small farms community can develop greater resilience by adopting agroforestry practices. Agroforestry describes a wide range of land-use practices that combine farming (of plants, animals, fungi) with trees, shrubs and forest ecosystems. Agroforestry can help provide new opportunities to increase farm income while also […]

Women for the Land Virtual Learning Circle – Prairie Strips

Connect with fellow women in agriculture while learning about how Prairie Strips can support conservation and farm viability. Build relationships with agricultural service providers who can help you implement this innovation. Info here.

Land Access/Land Legacy Member Forum

Land access, land transition, and land legacy are important topics that touch most of us in relationship with food, agriculture, and the land around us. The Land Stewardship Project invites members, allies, and those who care about LSP's work on these topics to join us for a Land Access/Land Legacy Forum discussion. We will share […]

Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education Conference

Our theme for this gathering is a lesson that the past year brought home to many: Nature is Essential. We are excited to announce the dates - and format - for our 2021 Annual Fall Conference. Please join fellow EE practitioners from across the state virtually on November 11th and in person at Bay Beach […]

Bioneers 2021 Conference

Bioneers 2021 will make the connections from ancient wisdom of forests to the visionary struggles of Amazonian First Peoples to protect the rainforest – from the wisdom of trauma for healing to Ecological Medicine and health equity – from the genius of the biophilic design revolution to designing nature-based infrastructures – from the Green New […]

Leadership Boot Camp

The Leadership Boot Camp Training Series was designed by the Promotion and Education Committee to serve as a fast-paced, challenging, one-day training session based on topics the WFBF Leadership Institute covers. Boot Camp gives Farm Bureau members the opportunity to get leadership development training but only commit to a few hours of training. The committee […]

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