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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Equipping Municipalities with Climate Change Data to Inform Stormwater Management

To appropriately size infrastructure, stormwater managers use estimates of precipitation amount over a range of durations and recurrence intervals (e.g., 100-year 24-hour storms). These estimates are created for every location in the United States by NOAA in their Atlas-14 publication. While Atlas-14 is an important guidance document, a limitation is that it does not account […]

Water Advocacy in Wisconsin: Watershed and Statewide Approaches

Allison Madison, sustainability and development coordinator, Wisconsin Salt Wise, and Alli Wenman, WATER Project outreach coordinator, UW–Madison Arboretum. Wisconsin needs action at different scales to protect freshwater resources. The Arboretum’s Water Action to Encourage Responsibility (WATER) Project and the Wisconsin Salt Wise Partnership work to address water quality issues at watershed and statewide scales. The […]

Supporting Mental Health: Southeast 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 […]

Getting Started with Backyard Swine

Whether you are looking to raise your own meat or diversify your farming income, pigs can be a great way to get started raising livestock. Swine are fairly low cost to purchase, quick return on investment, and require limited equipment to get started. Through this presentation we will discuss the basics of swine care, selection […]

Regional Food Models and Opportunities – 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 […]

Suckers – Swimming Superheroes of the Great Lakes

Dr. Karen Murchie, Director of Freshwater Research at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, will present “Suckers – Swimming Superheroes of the Great Lakes.” She will describe the ecology and importance of suckers in the Great Lakes, especially in the Sturgeon Bay and Door County tributaries. Info here.

More great info about how to effectively control invasive plants in wetlands

Craig Annen earned his bachelor’s of science in environmental science and plant molecular cell biology from Edgewood College in 1998 and his master’s of science in aquatic botany from the UW-LaCrosse in 2001. His research interests include invasive species management, economical ecology, and mathematical ecology. Craig is senior ecologist and operations manager of the firm […]

Dodge County Forage Council Annual Winter Meeting

Dr. Mark Renz, UW-Madison Extension Weed Specialist in the Agronomy Department, will give an update on Waterhemp Management in Wisconsin forages, its history in Wisconsin, why are we so concerned, and how management differs based on the forage grown. The talk will focus on management in alfalfa. The final presentation by Will Fulwider, UW-Madison Extension […]

Plastics in the Great Lakes: An Update on the Science and Discussions on Future Cleanup Efforts

Dr. Sherri Mason, a professor of chemistry and leading researcher on plastic pollution, continues to conduct groundbreaking research on the prevalence of plastics and micro-plastics in the Great Lakes. She will join the GLLC for this web session on plastic pollution, its impact on the Great Lakes ecosystem and human health, and strategies to clean […]

Healthy Soil Healthy Food Healthy People

Join the Village of Egg Harbor and Rodale Institute Organic Consultants for a program focused on orchard growing and regenerative organic farming practices for Door County’s largest exports: cherries and apples. They will also touch on other local crops. Info here.

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