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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Conservation Innovation Grants: Energy & Water Benchmarking Tools and Best Practices to Improve Resource Efficiency for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)

Join us for this webinar during which we will discuss: - PowerScore, a resource benchmarking tool, offers growers deeper insight into their energy, water, and emissions efficiency; - Productivity key performance indicators enhance competitive business insights for growers; and - A library of controlled environment agriculture best practices guides helps operators to optimize crop yields […]

Wisconsin’s Forever Chemical Crisis – Local Impacts and Community Action

On this tour we’ll join Wisconsin’s Green Fire members John Robinson, Meleesa Johnson, Mark Thimke and other members of WGF’s Contaminants of Concern Work Group will join the mayors of Wausau and Rhinelander and other local officials for a tour and policy discussion at the Wisconsin River in downtown Wausau. PFAS are persistent chemicals used […]

QGIS for Forestry

Join in on 3-part series exploring QGIS applications for forestry. As part of this series, Mick Wheaton of Valley View Forestry will lead you through hands-on exercises on the basics of QGIS and its use for manipulating data to create maps, application to forestry recon and timber sales, analyzing basic timber sale data, and creating […]

Shiitake Mushroom Workshop

Join Drs. Glen Stanosz and Scott Bowe, UW-Madison, for an introduction to Shiitake mushroom cultivation. This hands-on demonstration will begin with a discussion of the life cycle of Shiitake mushrooms. We will demonstrate how hardwood logs are prepared, inoculated, and tended to grow these delicious mushrooms. Come ready to work! Participants will be asked to […]

Diseased, Decayed, Defective, and Dangerous: When Good Trees Go Bad

Trees provide a variety of benefits to society. But trees also lose branches or break when forces exceed their structural strength or the root-soil connection. Tree failure can cause severe damage to houses and other structures, deny access or use of infrastructure, and injure or kill people. Landowners have legal “duty of care” for trees […]

Making the Most of Birds’ Diet and Foraging Strategies

The Role of Birds on the Farm Course: Lesson 7 - Making the Most of Birds’ Diet and Foraging Strategies Upon successfully completing this lesson, participants will be able to: Differentiate between insectivores, carnivores and omnivores. Distinguish between aerial, tree, shrub and ground foraging birds. Evaluate the different roles birds play based on when, what […]

Tile Flow Design Using CPS 606/620

These supporting practices are only a small part of the designs for waterways, WASCOBs, and other main practices. Fundamentals for following practice standards 620 and 606 are usually briefly covered. This Tech Talk will go a little deeper into the practice standards, terminology when using these “tile” practices, and explain their connection to their main […]

Soil Health Learning Circles (Bilingual) – Cover Crops for Soil Health

Please join us this spring for Soil Health Virtual Learning Circles featuring presenters on soil health and soil conservation topics for your farm. The six one-hour Learning Circles will be done via video conferencing and taught in English and Spanish. Info here.

Water Steward Program

Fresh water is Earth’s most precious resource. We all use it every day and can all have an impact on the ability to provide reliable supplies of clean water now and for future generations. Participants will learn about how our local water system works and the human impact on water. You will also gain knowledge […]

Watershed-Wide Infiltration and Flood Benefits from the Fields

Participants will joint to learn about the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Project, Kansas Health Watersheds and how available authorities did a sensitivity analysis on watershed wide soil health management systems in Kansas. This presentation will cover several subtopics: 1) An introduction to the Silver Jackets Program and the inter-agency projects. 2) Understanding […]

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