WELCOME TO CONSERVATION TRAINING

Welcome to ConservationTraining, your one-stop shop for integrated training opportunities! Whether you are a seasoned professional or new employee, agency staff or private sector consultant, you will find many opportunities to improve your professional skills, achieve certification or reach out to a new customer base.

• Effective, hands-on training that not only teaches, but shows you how to implement conservation on the land
• Time-conscious training that builds on skills you already have
• Cost-effective approaches that help you balance budgetary and staff professional development needs.

To get started, select a training category listed on the left side of the screen

Practice-Specific Training options for private sector consultants and agency staff
Practice Specific Training are advanced training programs designed to bring both private sector consultants (CCA’s, TSP’s) and agency staff to a common knowledge level. Sessions in these series tightly focus on interpreting technical standards, understanding the science behind best management practices and evaluation/improving planning documents. Seminars in these series include a mix of online training, hands-on field experience and classroom sessions. Annual continuing education sessions are also envisioned as a part of this training. These sessions are being piloted by Extension in Wisconsin .

Core Conservation Training for agency staff (with less than 2 years experience)
Core Conservation Training is a three session series designed to introduce the new employee to the basics of conservation and working with landowners. This series is being piloted by Extension and NRCS in Wisconsin and Minnesota , and is scheduled to begin in late 2004 and early 2005. This series will introduce agency staff to the crucial concepts of listening to landowners, customer service, the basics (and science of) conservation planning and program implementation.

Conservation Planning Training for agency staff (with 3-5 years experience)
Conservation Planning Training is a five-session series providing a research-based approach to whole-farm conservation planning. By focusing on the entire ecosystem scale (from watershed down to parts of a particular field), this training series provides a hands on approach to conservation plan development, evaluation, and landowner education. This series is being piloted by Extension and NRCS in Wisconsin and Minnesota , and is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2004

We are part of part of CSREES Great Lakes Regional Water Quality Program. For more related information please visit the Great Lakes Regional Water Quality Website.

• Integrated Conservation Training Program brochure (2 pages, 580 KB)

Please Contact Us, if you have any questions about our Program Offerings, Extension Contacts or Partner States information.