The Northwest Conservation District sponsors many natural resource training workshops for municipalities and the general public.  Don't miss out on future workshops, click here!

Past workshops that we sponsored included:

Workshops for Municipalities:

Randall Arendt-Conservation By Design

At this workshop, town commissioners, developers, engineers, and staff designed their own conservation friendly subdivision, and learned how to incorporate conservation in local plans and ordinances.

Erosion and Sediment Control Workshop

Town commissioners and staff learned how to apply the new erosion and sediment guidelines to a real plan-of-development.

What's Legally Required

Attorney Michael A. Zizka presented a short course in land use regulations according to his newly revised book "What's Legally Required".

Other previous workshops for municipalities included Designed to Protect: Designing stormwater management practices that really work to protect water resources, and Wetlands Demystified- a workshop to help learn how to identify wetlands and understand their value and function.

Workshops for Real Estate Professionals:

Reading the Land: Environmental Issues Critical to Sellers and Buyers.

A CEU Credit Workshop on land use, tools for reading the land, soils and wetlands, and understanding septic and well functions.

 

Workshops for Foresters:

Know Your Boundaries:

This workshop was geared toward loggers and foresters giving them valuable and practical training in map and compass use and orienteering.

Workshops for the Public:

Pond Restoration and Enhancement

Pond Consultants educated the public on recognizing and understanding the problems of an aging pond and learned the steps on how to rehabilitate it.

Pond and Lake Invasive Aquatic Weed Workshop

The public learned the steps to identify noxious invasive aquatic weeds, how to prevent them from getting into local ponds, and understand how to eradicate weeds if they already exist. More information could be found by visiting New Hampshire's Exotic Species Program's website.

Naugatuck Streamwalk

Volunteers learned the latest techniques to evaluate the health of the Naugatuck River. The training began with a classroom section to explain the process of a river survey. This was followed by an in-stream demonstration.  Based on the data collected from the volunteers the Conservation District can identify and prioritize trouble spots for attention.  Using the data collected, the District assisted the Litchfield Hills Council of Elected Officials in the planning stage of a Greenway for the Naugatuck River!