To keep the environmental community up-to-date on new initiatives and furthering our mission of stewardship and improving everyone’s quality of life through nature, we’re excited to offer several webinars on a variety of topics to add to your toolbox!
We think you’ll enjoy these and find them energizing as we move forward.
FREE — Thursday, July 29 at 11 am
This hour-long webinar hosted by PSCC and the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation will introduce you to the Casper Creek Natural Cemetery in Galena, Illinois and show the ease and environmental impact of choosing a natural burial in their conservation cemetery. A brief video will show the beautiful landscape and testimonials of those who have chosen this option for their final destination. You’ll learn the facts about natural burial and what it means to be a conservation cemetery. There’ll be time for questions following the presentation.
This webinar is FREE, but registration is required. The webinar link will be provided at registration.
Join PSCC and the Illinois Environmental Council for a conservation discussion about barriers, challenges, and solutions to significant issues experienced by conservationists. This discussion will help inform the IL 30×30 Coalition’s goals for aligning the state with President Biden’s 10-year America the Beautiful Campaign. The campaign sets a national goal to conserve at least 30 percent of the nation’s lands, freshwater, and ocean areas by 2030.
This webinar is FREE, but registration is required. The webinar link will be provided at registration.
PSCC, Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, and Lake Forest Open Lands invite you to a trails workshop in Lake Forest showing the conceptual background and practical skills needed to plan, design, construct, and maintain “universal trails” — trails that serve as wide a range of users as possible, while also minimizing environmental impact. More details to come later!
In addition to these PSCC webinars, the Land Trust Alliance offers many good webinars on interesting and diverse topics. You can find out more by CLICKING HERE.
PSCC is excited to offer a 3-part online series of workshops to help you become a better leader for your oganization’s future. We have partnered with Benedictine University’s Center for Values-Driven Leadership for these workshops to enable busy leaders like yourself to benefit from a time of focused leadership development. The series focuses on three…
Natural Areas Stewardship Grants Program application period is now open! Prairie State Conservation Coalition wrote the bill and with the Illinois Environmental Council and many supporting partners it passed in 2017. The goal of this grant program is to increase the delivery of much needed stewardship activities to natural areas protected within the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission (INPC) system. Stewardship needs…
The Illinois General Assembly is considering the Natural Areas Stewardship Act (HB 2031/SB 1029) that would allow expert nonprofit organizations to help local and state government conduct needed stewardship actions on Illinois Nature Preserves. Nature preserves are permanently protected places that give us rare glimpses of what Illinois’ true nature looks like. Spread across 110,000+…
As many are aware in our conservation community across Illinois, federal funding freezes and indiscriminate firings have deep and sudden impact on projects and people across our state. The Prairie State Conservation Coalition (PSCC) with its 40-member conservation organizations are concerned with unilateral federal actions that have stopped restoration work at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie,…
Economic Value of The Conservation Foundation’s 33,000 Acres of Preserved Land – Executive Summary Those that do not look deep into nature may not see value in its preservation. However, recent work has explored the economic impact of the goods and services, or ecosystem services (ESS), that nature freely provides. Unfortunately, it is because ESS…
PSCC Statement of Intention Regarding Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion September 2021 Prairie State Conservation Coalition (PSCC) commits to building a Board that is made up of and supports inclusion that reflects the diverse population that lives and works in Illinois. This diversity includes, but is not limited to, age, ability, economic circumstance, ethnicity, gender…
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