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Oregon Tilth & Oregon State University’s Center for Small Farms and Community Food Systems will be co-hosting the 5th National Farm Viability Conference in October 2021! Featuring an array of virtual programming, the conference will bring together professionals in the fields of farm and food business planning, financial planning, agricultural financing, crisis management, farmland conservation, […]
Theme: "Changes in Amphibian & Reptile Populations Throughout the Midwest." Midwest PARC (MWPARC) invites you to its virtual annual conference — hosted by the Turtle Survival Alliance. The conference will feature keynote speaker Dr. Michael J. Lannoo, Indiana University School of Medicine. Throughout the conference there will be sessions for oral presentations, posters, state updates, […]
Peter David is a wildlife ecologist with the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission. He originally hailed from a northeastern Wisconsin community best known as Titletown USA. He received his BS and MS degrees in Wildlife Ecology from UW-Madison and then headed north to work for GLIFWC, which was only in its third year of […]
Gertrud Nürnberg is head of Freshwater Research, a limnological company focusing on the restoration and modeling of eutrophic lakes and reservoirs. She founded this company in 1984, after completing her Ph.D. in biology/limnology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She’s worked with lake associations, governmental agencies, NGOs, engineering companies and the private sector in the […]
Evan DeLancey is a Spatial Data Scientist with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute working on landcover mapping and monitoring with satellite data in Alberta. He has a M.Sc. in remote sensing from the University of Alberta and specializes in using satellite data and machine learning to solve ecological monitoring problems. Details here.
Presentation topics include park history, invasive plant identification and control, and how to report invasive plants using your smartphone. Lunch will be provided, and after lunch we will put our new knowledge to good use removing invasive plants on-site. Details here.
Attendees will take a walk through the station’s vineyards with UW-Madison experts and learn about cold-hardy table grape varieties, the Petite Pearl wine grape variety, disease resistance evaluations, insect monitoring efforts, and general vineyard management.
The National Association of State Conservation Agencies and the National Watershed Coalition would like to welcome you to our joint conference! Details here.
Recreational fisheries have high economic worth, valued at US$190 billion globally. An important, but underappreciated, secondary value of recreational catch is its role as a source of food. This contribution is poorly understood due to difficulty in estimating recreational harvest at spatial scales beyond a single system, as traditionally estimated from individual creel surveys. Here, […]
Aldo Leopold, best known as the author of A Sand County Almanac, was a keen observer of the natural world. Throughout his life, he kept daily journals recording observations of seasonal events, especially those occurring at his beloved “Shack” on the Leopold farm which was the setting for many essays in A Sand County Almanac. […]
Hazel Thornton, Programme Officer for the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 2021 marks the start of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – a ten-year effort to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean. Join us as we explore the how, what, where, […]
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