Final registration deadline for Ohio Woodland Water and Wildlife Conference March 4 in Mansfield. The course provides Ohio natural resource professionals and land managers with up-to-date information on relevant natural resource issues. Registration is $60 by Feb. 17 and $80 from Feb. 17 to Feb. 25. Information: go.osu.edu/w4N.
Topics are "Beef Animal Handling and Facility Design” and “Forage Evaluation and Making Quality Dry Hay, Balage and Silage”. Statewide viewing locations available at go.osu.edu/wFg. Site determines registration or fee required to attend.
Cleaning Up America’s Rivers features Chad Pregracke, president and founder of Living Lands & Waters and CNN’s 2013 Hero of the Year. He will speak on his efforts to clean up major rivers. Hosted by the Environmental Professionals Network. Free registration and breakfast for the first 280 Ohio State students to register. Registration and breakfast are $10 for the first 120 non-students to register or $15 if paying by credit card.
Sheep and Goat Webinar Series has tips for improving lambing and kidding percentages through management, genetics and selection. Free at any of 10 statewide viewing locations; $20 fee to view elsewhere, such as at home. Information: sheep.osu.edu.
Registration deadline for Software for Developing Nutrient Management Plans Workshop March 2 in Ottawa. The program provides a working knowledge of MapWindow GIS and MMP Tools, which are approved tools for developing Fertilizer Only or Precision Fertilizer Only Nutrient Management Plans for Natural Resources Conservation Service programs such as EQIP. Information and registration: go.osu.edu/uu5.
School of Environment and Natural Resources Seminar Series: “Captive Breeding Programs to Mitigate Chytridiomycosis-related Extinctions: Lessons from Panama” by Brian Gratwicke, research scientist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Center for Species Survival. Free. Information: go.osu.edu/wzd.
TV Weathercasters as Climate Educators: Making the Global Local is an examination of whether America’s TV weathercasters can play an important role in educating the public about the local consequences of global climate change. Free. Information: go.osu.edu/wzZ.
Ohio Commercial Pesticide Applicator Recertification Conference helps applicators fulfill Ohio’s commercial pesticide applicator requirements. Recertification credits are available in all categories. Pre-registration by Feb. 11 is $75 without lunch, $95 with lunch; registration at the door is $85 and doesn’t include lunch.
Ohio Commercial Pesticide Applicator Recertification Conference helps applicators fulfill Ohio’s commercial pesticide applicator requirements. Recertification credits are available in all categories. Pre-registration by Feb. 11 is $75 without lunch, $95 with lunch; registration at the door is $85 and doesn’t include lunch. Information:pested.osu.edu.
The Ohio Commercial Pesticide Applicator Recertification Conference helps applicators fulfill Ohio’s commercial pesticide applicator requirements. Recertification credits are available in all categories. Pre-registration by Feb. 11 is $75 without lunch, $95 with lunch; registration at the door is $85 and doesn’t include lunch.
Registration deadline for Grafting Workshop March 4 Wooster. Hands-on workshop featuring the whats, whys and hows of plant grafting. Participants will have the chance to practice using provided rootstocks and scions; grafted plants can be taken home. Registration is $40. Limit: 10 participants. Information: go.osu.edu/wz3.
The Conservation Tillage Breakfast features presentations on water quality and best management practices for nutrient management by Cheryl Rice of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and Greg LaBarge of Ohio State University Extension. Free.
Discount registration deadline for Ohio Woodland Water and Wildlife Conference March 4 in Mansfield. The course provides Ohio natural resource professionals and land managers with up-to-date information on relevant natural resource issues. Registration is $60 by Feb. 17 and $80 from Feb. 17 to the Feb. 25 final registration deadline. Information: go.osu.edu/w4N.
Sheep and Goat Webinar Series has tips for reducing feed losses from silage and hay. Free at any of 10 statewide viewing locations; $20 fee to view elsewhere, such as at home. Information: sheep.osu.edu.
The Greater Mohican Audubon Society will help birders of every skill level to spot, identify, and discover birds and their habitats. Free. Information: secrest.osu.edu.
Guided Bird Walk, hosted by the Greater Mohican Audubon Society will help birders of every skill level to spot, identify, and discover birds and their habitats. Free. Information: secrest.osu.edu.
Members of the Greater Mohican Audubon Society will help birders of every skill level to spot, identify and discover birds and their habitats on a Guided Bird Walk. Free. Information: secrest.osu.edu.
Volunteer Day of Education participants will learn about mapping trees; monarch butterflies and pollinators; gardening; and the arboretum’s trial gardens, volunteer opportunities and plant sale. Free. Information:chadwickarboretum.osu.edu/join-us.
Volunteer Day of Education participants will learn about mapping trees; monarch butterflies and pollinators; gardening; and the arboretum’s trial gardens, volunteer opportunities and plant sale. Free. Information:chadwickarboretum.osu.edu/join-us.
