conservation
Webinar: Making Riparian Forest Buffers Work For You
Join Wisconsin Land+Water, Wisconsin NRCS, and the Savanna Institute for a webinar series. Every final Thursday, the Savanna Institute will introduce an agroforestry practice and talk more about the ways it can benefit your local land, water and communities. Riparian forest buffers are combinations of trees and shrubs designed to mitigate the impacts of land use on a water feature. …
Read MoreLife Hacks Over Lunch: A Meet-up Series for Watershed Professionals
This free, virtual meet-up series is a peer-learning opportunity for watershed professionals to share ideas and advice for solving real-life challenges of watershed projects. If you work with farmers and communities on watershed-scale projects to improve water quality and have ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t want to recreate the wheel,” this meet-up series is for you. In each meet-up, …
Read MoreIllinois Cohort Adopts Planning Framework to Expand Conservation
Illinois Cohort Adopts Planning Framework to Expand Conservation Illinois Sustainable Ag Partnership convenes cohort of Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework users to advance conservation principles while supporting healthy soils, clean water, and profitable farms. By: Adrienne Marino, Water Quality Project Manager, The Nature Conservancy Using ACPF Tools to Meet Water Quality Goals In our work to build soil health and …
Read MoreIllinois Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework Cohort Meeting
The IL ACPF Cohort, coordinated by ISAP, meets to provide opportunities for individuals who are currently using or are interested in using ACPF tools to network with peers, collaborate, troubleshoot, and share lessons learned in an informal space. New members are always welcome to join ACPF cohort meetings which are held bi-monthly. Participating in the IL ACPF Cohort may be …
Read MoreIllinois Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework Cohort Meeting
The IL ACPF Cohort, coordinated by ISAP, meets to provide opportunities for individuals who are currently using or are interested in using ACPF tools to network with peers, collaborate, troubleshoot, and share lessons learned in an informal space. New members are always welcome to join ACPF cohort meetings which are held bi-monthly. Participating in the IL ACPF Cohort may be …
Read MoreAlphabet Soup: Making Conservation Conventional
VirtualJoin Sand County Foundation and the Illinois Sustainable Ag Partnership for an interactive and strategy-building discussion based on Sand County Foundation’s recent report, “Making Conservation Conventional: Perspectives from a behavioral design process with farmers in the midwestern United States.” Taking an interactive design approach to the foundational issues of farmer adoption of conservation practices, Sand County Foundation and GRID Impact worked for over …
Read More