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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Volunteer Stream Monitoring Workshop

Do you live by a stream or river? Looking for a way to protect streams near you? Become a volunteer stream monitor with the Rock River Coalition! From May to October, our 180+ stream monitors collect data vital to understanding the health of our streams across the Rock River Basin. By the end of this […]

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Wetland Construction: Principles, Planning, and Design

May 9, 11, 13, and 16 As state and federal wetland mitigation standards evolve away from an acre-for-acre approach to a focus on replacing wetland functions, your understanding of the wetland's "wet part" has never been more critical. This online class serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of functional design and provides the means […]

Sharptail Grouse and Early Successional Habitat

Join Jacob Granfors, Pheasants Forever Farm Bill Wildlife Biologist, and Garett Christiansen, NRCS Forester, for this session on open landscapes, early successional habitat, and young forest/brushland wildlife habitat. During this session Jake and Garett will cover the range, population status, habitat needs, and ongoing management for Sharptail Grouse. This session also includes a discussion of […]

Managing Pest Birds

The Role of Birds on the Farm Course: Lesson 5 - Managing Pest Birds Upon successfully completing this lesson, participants will be able to: Explain the crop feeding/damage risk of birds that move in large flocks and the management techniques used for them as opposed to those that don’t. Recommend several types of visual, audio […]

Great Lakes Water Infrastructure Conference

Join the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) for this conference focused on the water infrastructure challenges faced by the Great Lakes region and solutions to those challenges. Infrastructure is the unseen backbone supporting our modern lives, but investment has lagged nationwide and much of it is aging. The communities of the […]

Gene silencing technologies for invasive Phragmites control

Gene silencing represents a family of biotechnologies based on the interruption or suppression of gene expression at transcriptional or translational levels. As an environmentally benign and species-specific solution, gene silencing technologies (GSTs) have a great potential of being applied to the control of invasive species such as Phragmites. This presentation will discuss recent progress made […]

Spectacular sedges in Wisconsin’s wetlands​

Have you ever wanted to know more about the plant diversity that lurks in green wetland meadows and marshes? Dr. Mandy Little will share her knowledge of sedges, a plant family that dominates healthy Wisconsin wetlands. Cottongrass, bulrush, woolgrass, and spikerush? Yep, they’re all sedges. This will be a great talk for anyone interested in […]

Best Practices for Watering Yards and Gardens

Do you know that there is a right way and a wrong way to water your plants? Join us to learn about the water requirements for most plants, how proper watering practices can prevent plant diseases, and different ways to conserve water for your yards and gardens. Info here.

A World Without Soil

Participants in this session will learn why soil is an essential part of the Earth’s ability to feed the world's population and it is key to climate stability. Ninety-five percent of our food supply is dependent upon soil. More than three-quarters of the antibiotics used in the clinical medicine are derived from soil bacteria. And […]

Molecular Basis for Controlling Invasive Plants

Matt Tancos, Research Plant Pathologist at the Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit in Fort Detrick, MD USDA - ARS and the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) are co-hosting 10 webinars on weed science and research. Info here.

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