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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Wisconsin Counties Association’s Annual Conference

Online

Every autumn for the last 81 years, county officials from around the state have gathered at the Wisconsin Counties Association’s (WCA) Annual Conference and Marketplace for educational opportunities, introduction to new products, and peer networking. Learn more here.

Free

Healthy Soils for a Sustainable Future: Soil Health and Greenhouse Gases

Online

This webinar is intended to help technicians and educators work with landowners to help them better understand and navigate methods for reducing GHG emissions from soil through soil carbon and N management while also addressing other social or economic considerations.

Free

Invasive Plants: Know Them, Control Them

Online

This webinar will provide you with the basic information needed to recognize and manage invasive plants- common or coming- to western Wisconsin. Information provided will help you: understand the impact of invasive plants on your community, identify invasive plants, and take steps to minimize the negative impacts of invasive plants. Register here.

Free

National Association of State Conservation Agencies Annual Meeting

Online

The National Association of State Conservation Agencies would like to welcome you to our virtual conference on October 5 – 7. As much as we’d love to meet with everyone in person, for the safety of our members and family, we will host a virtual meeting for 2020. Our planned meeting in Spokane WA has […]

Free

North America Invasive Species Management Association Conference

Online

The NAISMA Board of Directors, Staff, and Planning Committee are excited for this year’s opportunity to bring our high quality agenda, professional development, and networking opportunities to invasive species managers in North America and beyond

Precision Livestock Farming

Online

This virtual field day will highlight new technologies in Precision Livestock Farming either in development or recently launched. 

Free

Conservation Assessment Ranking Tool (CART)

Online

This webinar will take a deeper look at the science behind CART and the methodology the ranking tool uses to rank different applications across multiple ranking pools for funding consideration. Register here.

Free

How Did We Get Here?

Online

This webinar will provide a light-hearted but historically accurate overview of the evolution of county land conservation programs from the perspective of two "seasoned" County Conservationists, with a focus on nonpoint pollution.

Free

The History and Ecology of the Horicon Marsh

Online

The story of the Horicon Marsh is one of creation, destruction, and revival. Created by the glaciers yet scarred by humans, this important wetland has been restored by conservationists who had the foresight to think about the future of this wetland. Despite the degradation, Horicon Marsh was listed as a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in 1990 […]

Free

Leaf-Free Streets: Reducing Urban Phosphorus

Online

Trees have long been a valued feature of the urban landscape. They provide a host of benefits such as habitat, aesthetics, energy savings, and noise reduction. Trees are also an important part of the urban hydrologic cycle.

Free

Sustainable Forest Harvesting

Online

The topics for this virtual field day will include: Different harvest options for different goals What to expect during a harvest What the land looks like when harvested responsibly Deer management Learn more here.

Free

Grazing Virtual Field Day

Online

This grazing field day will focus on pasture management, soil health, regenerative agriculture as well as opportunities that are provided by Conservation Districts and the National Conservation Resource Service. Learn more here.

Free

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