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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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This free, virtual meet-up series is a peer-learning opportunity for watershed professionals to share ideas and advice for solving real-life challenges of watershed projects. If you work with farmers and communities on watershed-scale projects to improve water quality and have ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t want to recreate the wheel,” this meet-up series is […]
Sunday movie matinee at 2:00pm, followed by a discussion on its relation to climate change A moving dramatic play by Anna Ouyang Moench. John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Relationships begin and end. Children grow up […]
Please save the dates for the Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference 2022. Info here.
Free 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, guidance […]
Come celebrate fall and harvest season with other women who share your commitment to land conservation! Gather ideas and information for establishing your land conservation plan and how to use the upcoming winter months for planning, research and connections with NRCS. All women farmers, landowners and conservationists from Racine, Walworth, Milwaukee and surrounding counties are […]
Free, hands-on 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, money and our waters. Participate in small group discussions, equipment open house, and a calibration demonstration. The training will include: best management practices […]
This monthly webinar series highlights recent outcomes, emerging opportunities, and conservation tools and data developed to assist with conservation planning and impact and efficiency assessment. The series illustrates the scope of Farm Bill conservation efforts on privately owned croplands, forests, and rangelands; documents the conservation achievements and outcomes of those efforts; and shows the utility […]
WI Land+Water is hosting a series of Climate and Conservation webinars featuring climate experts that will share important climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, tools, and resources to help county conservation staff and board supervisors integrate climate into local programming. Join Laurie Nowatzke, USDA Midwest Climate Hub Coordinator to learn more about the vast resources available […]
Please join us for a webinar highlighting what's new at the National Wetlands Inventory Program. This presentation will feature important NWI updates for anyone using or producing NWI wetlands data. The presenters will provide background on NWI's renewed commitment to working with the USGS NHD/3DEP program in an effort to bring these datasets closer together. […]
Basic Ag 101 is designed for new agency staff working with landowners. In part 2, you will understand tillage equipment and impact on residue and soil. You will see in person the difference between tillage equipment impacts. You will learn about shooting slopes and determining critical areas in a field. This session will develop your […]
Sand County Foundation's Leadership for Midwestern Watersheds is a popular forum for professionals who lead projects that reduce agricultural runoff in watersheds of the central United States. Leadership for Midwestern Watersheds is developing a “community of practice” among conservation practitioners who work to improve water quality with landowners, agencies, and businesses, one watershed at a […]
As a follow up to the December 15, 2021 Virtual Training on the Shoreline Stabilization Pamphlet each County received back in Spring 2022, don’t miss the upcoming Tour of Shoreline Projects to showcase some of the practices in the field! Variety of Stabilizations – rock, tree revetments, tree drops, fish sticks, bags, geogrid lifts, and vegetated rock […]
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