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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Smart Salting for WI Roads Workshop

Free training for winter maintenance professionals who remove snow, apply road salt or maintain snow removal equipment used on roads. Learn how using the right amount of salt can save time, budget and our waters. The training will include: best management practices to keep paved areas safe, benefits of using a liquid salt system, guidance […]

Strategies to Reduce Stress on the Farm

Farm women are the backbone of the American farm, often working both on and off the farm to help make ends meet. The stressors that come with this responsibility are numerous! Now add in the responsibility of communicating with family members, farm partners, and industry professionals. This can become a difficult and daunting task. PA […]

Structured Decision Making for Lake Habitat Restoration

Structured Decision Making (SDM) is a great tool to guide strategic habitat planning and address challenges and priorities to achieve restoration and conservation success. This webinar will provide an overview of how SDM can be used to balance largescale landscape needs with local restoration actions to guide decision making and achieve project goals. An overview […]

USDA Forest Service 2022 Wood Innovations Grants Program Pre-Application

The USDA Forest Service Wood Innovations Program expands and creates markets for wood products and wood energy that support long-term, sustainable management of National Forest System lands and other forest lands. The program has two national competitive grants programs, as well as project activities funded under discretionary agreements and annual work plans. The webcast will […]

Beyond Greenness: Quantifying Climate-Vegetation Interactions from Leaf to Globe

Presentation by Mallory Barnes, Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Assessment and prediction of the impacts of climate change on the environment and human societies requires multi-scale understanding of interactions between biogeochemical, hydrologic, and atmospheric cycles. For many years, measures of greenness from spaceborne satellites were the only way to consistently […]

Grassland Birds & Conservation

Jenn Simons is an expert on grassland birds and the Southern Driftless Grasslands Project Manager. Jenn has been working in sustainable agriculture and conservation for nearly a decade, most recently conducting research on conservation grazing at The Nature Conservancy’s Nachusa Grasslands in northern Illinois as part of her MS degree in restoration ecology from the […]

Building Scientific Understanding to Guide Native Pollinator Habitat Restoration Practices

This workshop aims to increase restoration practitioners’ understanding of the scientific foundations that guide native habitat restoration and management. This includes plant-pollinator interdependency and long-term ecosystem sustainability; why holistic approaches to habitat management are important to biodiversity; the significance of native and invasive plant species for pollinators/wildlife and to restoration outcomes; and how to translate […]

Clean Lakes 101: At-Home Water Quality Action

Join us Wednesday, November 10th to hear Katie Richgels discuss actionable ways for residents to reduce stormwater runoff from reaching the lakes. Land use and climate impacts, such as heavy rain and runoff, and other headwinds threaten our progress toward healthy lakes. Fortunately, you don’t need to live on the lakes to make a difference […]

Smart Salting for Parking Lots and Sidewalks

Free IN-PERSON training for winter maintenance professionals who remove snow, apply road salt or maintain snow removal equipment used on roads. Learn how using the right amount of salt can save time, budget and our waters. The training will include: best management practices to keep paved areas safe, benefits of using a liquid salt system, […]

Restoration for whom, by whom? Exploring the socio-political dimensions of restoration

As the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration launches into action, urgent attention is needed to the power and politics that shape the values, meanings, and science driving restoration, to enable the creation of equitable restoration initiatives. In this webinar, we adopt a feminist political ecology lens, with a focus on gendered power relations, historical awareness, […]

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