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.
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Illinois 30×30 Campaign
FREE Wednesday, August 11 at 3 pm
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.
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Save the date! November 2nd and 3rd
Trails for Everyone Workshop
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.
Executive Director Cynthia Kanner was interviewed on WGN-TV to talk about PSCC’s role in Illinois’s conservation on World Nature Conservation Day, Sunday, July 28. Kanner talked about future plans for PSCC with the $42 million grant received from the Illinois Clean Energy Commission Foundation earlier this year. (click on the image below to view the…
Citing new funding sources for wildfire hazard mitigation, Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition has partnered with Colorado State University, University of Michigan, the Fire Learning Network, and the Watershed Research and Training Center to launch a survey on prescribed fire implementation capacity, insurance access and barriers. Those experienced in planning and implementing prescribed fire operations…
Prairie State Conservation Coalition is seeking proposals to help develop a business plan for the organization to better meet the needs of its members. Anyone wishing to submit an RFP can do so by downloading the request here. Complete proposals must be submitted no later than August 22. Questions about the process need to be…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service accepted a 66-acre donation of land from Friends of the Kankakee to officially establish the Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area. This became official on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 and becomes the nation’s 564th national wildlife refuge. You can read more here on the FAQ sheet, and here’s…
Advanced placement and honors Environmental Science students at Barrington High School became “citizen scientists” by conducting water testing at five Flint Creek sites in late October, as an ongoing part of Barrington Area Conservation Trust’s Conservation@School Project. The students continued the stream monitoring work that had begun in September by performing physical, chemical and biological…
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, along with partners representing agriculture, transportation or utility rights-of-way, conservation lands, urban, and educational sectors are working to develop a plan to increase monarch butterfly habitat in Illinois. A first step is to identify ongoing monarch conservation efforts so that we can better coordinate among them to create more…
