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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Microplastics Debris Pollution Webinar

Presenter: Dr. Lorena M. Rios Mendoza, Natural Sciences Department/Chemistry and Physics Program, University of Wisconsin-Superior Microplastic debris is one of the most cited emergent pollutants in the last decade with a potential hazard to aquatic life because of the known potential to adsorb persistent organic pollutants, and they can be easily confused with natural food. […]

Finding, Defining, and Interpreting NR 151

Tread through the standards and learn to better read and speak the language. Join us for an hour with DNR veterans for a deliberate walk-through of NR 151, the history of revisions, and an emphasis on expounding the standards/terminology most commonly asked about. If you do not receive a confirmation email upon submitting your registration, […]

Supporting Mental Health: Northwest WI

As women farmers, landowners and conservationists, we wear multiple hats and juggle various responsibilities and commitments, including a strong vision of increasing stewardship practices on our land. And we all live in a vulnerable space at one time or another – and for one reason or another. How can we as a community best support […]

The Economics of Carbon – Lower Fox River farmer roundtable

Agenda Includes a Variety of Informational Topics on Soil Health Practices and Resources for Farming in the Lower Fox: Lessons learned from planting green Equipment set-up and other considerations for no-till Low disturbance manure injection Successing in interseeding New cover crop species Update on local roller crimper rye to suppress water hemp and white mold study […]

2022 Farm and Rural Lobby Day

Join fellow farmers and rural residents in Madison to talk with your state legislators about issues impacting your farm and community! Info here.

Soil for Water Film Premiere

Your soil health is going to keep you in business. If you take care of your soil, the land will give back to you.” Tina Weldon and her partner Orion are among a growing network of farmers, ranchers, and land managers are taking steps to catch and hold more water in the soil. Join the […]

Watershed education, outreach, and engagement: How can Extension support local partners in their programming?

On a regular basis, the Extension Foundation hosts virtual chats on Connect Extension, available to all Cooperative Extension professionals. The purpose of these short virtual chats is to highlight best practices and innovation throughout Cooperative Extension and initiative conversations about important issues. Each session will be a different topic area. We will be discussing opportunities […]

What Environmental Health Professionals Need to Know about Private Wells

This free webinar will provide an introduction to groundwater, well construction, water quality, and well care best practices for environmental health professionals and others who serve well owners. Information on how to find local experts and sources of additional free training will be included. We'll also introduce our upcoming online workshops on assessing well vulnerability […]

Food Distribution, Storage, and Logistics – Building Native Agriculture

The beginning of a webinar series designed to assist individuals and Tribes by sharing proven methods which can be used as building blocks for Indigenous agriculture systems, providing a road map to success. These presentations are intended to bolster Native farmers' and ranchers' ability to engage in production agriculture through a better understanding how food […]

Communicating for Inclusion

Drawing on lessons and examples from the first events in this series, we will consider strategies for making NASA citizen science project communications more inclusive. “Inclusive science communication” was defined in a 2020 report by the Metcalf Institute at the University of Rhode Island as “any effort to engage people in science, tech, engineering, math […]

“Soil Your Undies” Soil Health Exploration Series

To reach new audiences via virtual formats while also encouraging scientific experimentation, Greenville County Soil and Water Conservation District, SC recently developed an online workshop to share simple ways to measure soil health. Each registrant received a kit to measure soil health using easy to find items, like cotton underwear, and all learning materials were […]

Watershed-Based Fisheries Management in the Driftless Region

Stream fish populations reflect not only the abiotic and biotic conditions within and near the stream, but those across the watershed. Few places is this more apparent than in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region, which has experienced significant changes in land use, climate, and trout populations over the past 100 years. In this presentation, Kirk Olson (WDNR […]

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