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Explore our Conservation Calendar for information on conservation-related events and trainings hosted across Wisconsin and beyond.
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Learn how to authentically and powerfully tell your story and lift up the issues affecting our farms and communities. Wisconsin Farmers Union invites you to a special session focused on sharing our rural stories to build power and raise awareness. We’ll cover the importance of storytelling, how to connect personal stories with collective interest, and […]
Soil Health - Fenwood Creek Watershed - Marathon County Location: Bauman Dairy Farm, 221584 Fairfield Dr, Edgar, WI Date: Friday, October 14, 2022 Time: 9:30am - 3:00pm Join us to discuss practices that benefit your farm and help water infiltrate into your soil. See how different management practices conserve soil and nutrients, and witness the […]
The 2022 Confluence: Protecting What We Love in the Rock River Watershed The Rock River Coalition Conference, The Confluence, will be held on Saturday, October 15th in the City of Watertown. We’re excited to invite our members, partners, water stewards, and community members from across the Rock River basin to participate in this day-long conference. […]
Climate Fast Forward 2022 gives everyone in Wisconsin the chance to be a part of the solution to the climate emergency. Participants will take stock of the progress Wisconsin has made towards mitigating and adapting to climate change since the 2019 conference, and will confront the challenges we still face in accelerating transformational change. The […]
NRCS PaddockTrac, Fall Grazing Info here.
Join us for an introductory conversation about the production and marketing of pigs raised in pasture settings. Pigs can function as a profitable stand-alone enterprise or can be integrated into your existing farm structure to provide a variety of products and make use of marginal lands that would otherwise go unused. Pigs are also ideal […]
October 11 – November 1 (Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm each week) In less than a single human lifetime, 2.9 billion breeding adult birds have been lost from the United States and Canada, across every ecosystem, and including some of the most abundant and familiar bird species. In this course we will examine how we […]
Save the dates to attend the 2022 Upper Mississippi River Conference. We'll look at how the private and public sectors can address climate change. Info here.
The Wisconsin Association for Floodplain, Stormwater, and Coastal Management (WAFSCM) is holding its 20th Annual Conference. Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and Continuing Education Credits (CECs) can be earned at the main conference. The main conference will include plenary and speaker sessions throughout the day. Specialized workshops, field tour, and a social reception. As always, we […]
Are you a conservation educator working with women landowners in Wisconsin? A warm invite to join the WiWiC Conservation Educator Network at their Fall Meet-up. The WiWiC Conservation Educator Network is an inclusive network of conservation educators to collaboratively support each other in our conservation outreach and work. The goal of this network, facilitated by […]
On a warming planet, a key challenge natural resource managers face is protecting wildlife while mitigating climate change—as through forest carbon storage—to the greatest extent possible. But in some ecosystems, habitat restoration for imperiled species may be incompatible with maximizing carbon storage. For example, promoting early successional forest conditions does not maximize stand-level carbon storage, […]
Hosted by Roger Bindl, at S10620 Weidner Rd, Spring Green. This pasture walk will be focused on grazing cover crops and will showcase information collected as part of an ongoing research project with the Sand County Foundation and four graziers from SSWIG. Info here.
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