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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Online Course: Culvert Design for Stream Connectivity and Aquatic Organism Passage

Online

This course is intended to offer culvert designers consistent information for developing public waters culvert projects with respect to aquatic organism passage (fish passage) and stream connectivity. Attendees will learn how to apply best practices and appropriate calculations, starting from the basis of field-identified stream metrics. This is a free workshop.  Once registered, it begins with […]

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Webinar Series: Cultivating Local Farm Economies: Planning, Zoning and Emerging Issues in Agritourism

Online

MSU Extension is pleased to present a new webinar series focused on education around local planning and zoning, the Michigan Right to Farm Act and emerging Agritourism strategies. June 7 - Introduction to Agritourism and Local Planning and Zoning June 14 - Understanding Local Zoning, RTF, and Farm Market GAAMPS June 21 - Agritourism and […]

$25

Wetlands as Solutions to our Water Issues in Wisconsin

Online

Learn about what wetlands are, why they’re important, their current state, and what you can do to care for these natural treasures. Historically viewed as wastelands, wetland loss was rampant in Wisconsin for many decades. The legacy of wetland loss has contributed to many of our current natural resource and societal problems such as increased […]

Wisconsin Plant Condition Inventory and Evaluation Training

Online

Starting June 8 from 10:00am–12:00pm, this course provides an introduction to the pasture evaluation approach known as Pasture Condition Scoring (PCS).  You'll learn about the ten indicators of pasture health commonly used in PCS and some tools for evaluating the indicators.  You will also learn how to complete the PCS scoresheet, which guides pasture condition […]

Planting Green

Online

This edition of the Producer-Led Webinar Series will cover agronomic and management considerations in planting corn into rye as well as planting corn into alfalfa. We will look at cover crop planting dates and seeding rates, herbicide programs, nitrogen management and more. Follow this link to learn more.

Farmland to Shoreland

Shawano Wisconsin

Join us for a field day at two Shawano County farms to learn about interseeding, grazing and how you can protect your lakeshore. 4:30 PM - Interseeding W2648 River Road, Bonduel, WI 54107 6:30 PM – Grazing W5497 County Road BE, Shawano, WI 54107 Information and registration here. 

Farming with Soil Life Short Course

Online

In this course, participants will discuss common soil invertebrates, their ecology and roles in soil health, scouting methods, and management strategies to increase beneficial soil animal populations. Xerces presenters Stephanie Frischie and Jennifer Hopwood will be joined by farmer and soil health specialist Barry Fisher.  For more information such as the course agenda and learning […]

Accepting Payments from Customers using Food Assistance Programs

Online

The Wisconsin Departments of Health Services (DHS) and Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is hosting a webinar provide information to farmers, farmers market managers, and farmer organizations on the steps and requirements involved with accepting Food Assistance Program payment methods. The webinar will discuss how to do the following: Register as a retailer for Supplemental […]

Using Social Norms to Promote Conservation Adoption

Online

Organized by the North Central Region Water Network, this webinar will discuss how conservation professionals can use social norms to promote adoption of conservation practices. What do we know about social norms and how they impact the agricultural community? Information here. Register here.

Sacred Earth Field Day

Sacred Earth S7560 US HWY 12, North Freedom, WI

Learn about the unique environmental, cultural, and geological history of Sacred Earth. Randy Poelma will guide us through the vast restoration efforts that are taking place to transition the land back to prairie and crucial pollinator habitat. Follow this link to learn more.

Opportunities for New NRCS NWQI Watersheds

Online

Designed for state source water coordinators, state and local NRCS, utilities, conservation districts, and other source water partners, this webinar will discuss the importance of initiating or continuing conversations with NRCS before the National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI) deadline on July 9, 2021. You will hear the state NRCS perspective on NWQI and its source […]

Biomass Utilization Centers: A New Approach for Optimal forest Management

Online

Dr. Nate Anderson, a research forester at the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Montana, will discuss his work on bioenergy and bioproducts research and development, focusing on the following: Sustainable and economically efficient forest biomass management and production systems Competitive low-emissions biofuels and bioenergy conversion technologies deployed in the forest sector Information […]

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