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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Strategies for Land Stewardship Summit

Join farmers, farm advisors, conservation professionals, and others for this peer-to-peer learning opportunity to get practical insights and ideas about how to be successful and profitable with cover crops, no-till, and other soil and water conservation practices. Summit activities will include Farmer-led tours of two southeast Wisconsin farms that are demonstrating cover crops, no-till, strip […]

Engineering Ethics for Professional Engineers webinar

Professional Engineers (PEs) registered in the state of Wisconsin are required by WI Chapter A-E 13, Continuing Education for Professional Engineers to obtain 30 PDHs of professional engineering continuing education, per biennium. Two professional development hours (PDHs) must be in the area of professional conduct and ethics. Engineers are expected to exhibit the highest standards […]

Innovative Stormwater Management: How Using Biochar-Amended Iron-Enhanced Sand Filters Can Reduce the Flow of Bacteria (E. coli) and Phosphorus Into Our Water Bodies

As rainfall events become more frequent and intense, watershed management becomes paramount. Elevated bacteria levels in the nation’s surface waters are a public health issue–leading to sick pets, beach closures, and posing immediate health risks to anyone who recreates in or consumes the water. Until now, there have been limited, cost-effective ways to reduce bacteria […]

Maintaining your Landscape with Pollinators in Mind w/ Melinda Myers

You can have a landscape that you and pollinators enjoy. A few changes to the way we maintain our plants and manage insect pests and diseases can help create a safe environment for pollinators. We’ll cover pollinator-friendly care to keep your landscape healthy and looking its best throughout the year. Then we’ll explore ways to […]

Bee-utiful Planting for Pollinators

While wildlife gardening is now one of the biggest gardening trends, the decline of pollinators and other insects still remains urgent. Learn how to help pollinators thrive and create refuge for them, and how to enhance local food productivity by adding native plants to urban and suburban yards. Info here.

Enhancing Pollinators

We’re buzzed up talking about pollinators this session, digging into what you can do to increase the population of bees, butterflies, beetles and why pollinators are so vital to creating and maintaining a healthy habitat and ecosystem. Learn about identifying what pollinators are already on your land along with resources to increase the population. Connect […]

Real time monitoring and control of green infrastructure for improved stormwater management

Stormwater green infrastructure (GI) provides many benefits to our society and helps to protect our precious ecosystems Being passive and natural systems, GI exhibit natural variability in their performance. As such, significant effort has been dedicated to reducing this variability, and improving performance through optimised design; e.g. careful plant and media selection and the inclusion […]

Rural Resilience and Our Water and Climate Challenges

Agriculture and Rural Resilience are Vital to Meeting our Water and Climate Challenges Speakers: Scott Leaser, Clean Water Wisconsin and Michael Tiboris, River Alliance of Wisconsin Water has been an important topic across Wisconsin for many years but legislative efforts to protect and clean-up our water resources have been limited at best. Climate change will […]

Starry Nights Farm- Pasture Walk

Pasture Walk with an emphasis on Beef Grazing and soil health. Will include a Rain Fall Simulator Info here.

Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA), The Energy Fair

Organized by the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA), The Energy Fair is the nation’s longest-running event of its kind and brings over 11,500 attendees together to learn about sustainability and clean energy, connect with others, and take action toward a sustainable future. Info here.

Warmer, Wetter, and Wilder with Bart De Stasio

Bart De Stasio, Ph.D., professor of biology and environmental studies at Lawrence University, will explain projections for climate change in Door County and discuss the effects on the county’s ecology and surrounding waters in Green Bay and Lake Michigan. These will include more intense rainfall, more and larger algae blooms, an expanded “dead zone” in […]

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