Enhancing Habitat Connectivity Through Corporate Conservation

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The Private Sector Role in Reconnecting Habitat for Ecosystem Health and Resiliency
Sponsored by Bruce Power

Healthy habitats are necessary for plants and animals to survive and thrive. One measure of the health of a habitat is the degree to which it is isolated from other habitats by land management practices or development, commonly referred to as fragmentation. Fragmentation is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity across the planet, as it can prevent species from moving to hunt, mate, disperse to new areas or escape predators. When corporate landowners engage in ecological connectivity initiatives to reduce fragmentation, they are contributing to landscape-scale efforts that have benefits beyond the corporate footprint and across the entire ecoregion.

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The Three “E”s to Success: Employees, Education and Engagement

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This webinar will offer insights into elements of success essential to strong projects: continual engagement with employees and strong partners; educational support to teach and gather data on your projects; and an understanding of the natural and human community in which you are interacting. Learn how to connect your employees with state-level conservation education resources to develop partnerships that meet your WHC Conservation Certification objectives. You’ll find out how you may use these resources to conduct education and outreach initiatives at your WHC-certified habitat and walk away with a ready-to-use toolkit to encourage engagement.

You’ll learn:

  • The ready-made lessons in Project Learning Tree (PLT) and how you can obtain them through online or in-person training.
  • How PLT has been applied to WHC habitat projects with great effectiveness.
  • How PLT supports conservation goals, as well as local, state and national education standards.
  • The many resources available to you to apply this flexible curriculum to formal education, training and community engagement, and awareness events.

Presenters:

  • Michelle Holyfield, Eastman
  • Jaclyn Stallard, Project Learning Tree
  • Misty Bowie, Texas Forestry Association

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Corporate Citizenship and STEM Education

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Creating a Pipeline of Proficiency for a Future Workforce
Sponsored by Freeport-McMoRan

Many companies today choose to use the environment as the integrating concept for STEM, providing learning opportunities through hands-on, outdoors and nature-based activities. These approaches—examples of which are outlined in this white paper—take advantage of the lands on which an operation is located,  understand community needs by providing place-based and relevant programs, and meet multiple corporate goals across the spectrum of corporate citizenship efforts.

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i-Tree Software: A Free Tool for Assessment and Reporting

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Trying to build a lasting partnership in conservation and community engagement? Learn time-tested steps to ensure your partnership will be mutually beneficial and last from the first excitement-filled meeting well into a mature habitat enhancement program.

This course teaches you to use i-Tree, a state-of-the-art software suite created by the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree tools help communities of all sizes to strengthen their urban forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying the structure of community trees and the environmental services that trees provide. Learn how you can report on individual trees, parcels, neighborhoods, cities, and even entire states. By understanding the local, tangible ecosystem services that trees provide, i-Tree users can link urban forest management activities with environmental quality and community livability. Whether your interest is a single tree or an entire forest, i-Tree provides baseline data that you can use to demonstrate value and set priorities for more effective decision-making.

Presenter:
David J. Nowak, Ph.D., Project Leader, Forest Service Urban Forests, Human Health & Environmental Quality

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5 Innovative Approaches to Habitat Regeneration

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Gain greater competency in habitat restoration in a way that is easy to understand through this innovative approach to habitat regeneration success. Specifically, learn how to prioritize your land-management projects, from gathering baseline data to flora and fauna invasive species control to long-term protection and maintenance of your conservation investment. Our expert presenter will share critical steps to habitat regeneration, and how you can incorporate the latest technology and best management practices to ensure you accomplish your conservation goals every step along the continuum.

Join Gene as he shares his years of experience from real-world projects and case studies as you learn:

  • An easy-to-understand theory and step-by-step process behind planning a restoration/conservation project and why some steps may need to be addressed before others can succeed
  • The latest technology and how it can help you monitor from baseline analysis to each benchmark, helping to minimize efforts and save resources
  • How to mark your success at each stage of the often long-term process of habitat restoration
  • Tactics on how to demonstrate your success to others, retain project interest and build upon it

Presenter:

  • Gene Huntington, Ecological Landscape Architect and Partner at Steward Green, Accredited Professional for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

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Build a Bug Palace – Learn How Easy, Inexpensive Insect Hotels Can Enhance Your Habitat

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What is an Insect Hotel?
Part art, part habitat, insect (or bug) hotels are quickly catching on as an inexpensive, easy and fun way to provide food, shelter, and nesting and hibernation space to all manner of bugs: native bees, lacewings, beetles, ladybugs, etc.

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Why an Insect Hotel?

  • These bug accommodations provide interesting, beautiful structures that complement their natural settings
  • They provide valuable habitat for bugs that are pollinators, or play other critical roles in your habitat
  • They offer an opportunity for hands-on employee and/or community engagement
  • Unlike most luxury hotels, they’re cheap – you don’t have to break the bank to build them, and most of the materials can be from resourced from your lands

Learn How to Build Your Own Insect Hotel
This webinar will give you the basic knowledge you need to create and easy, inexpensive Insect Hotel. You’ll also learn how an Insect Hotel can enhance your Conservation Certification grasslands, landscaping or pollinator projects, and how you can use these buggy domiciles as part of your education projects as well.

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Conservation Certification Crash Course

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Do you only have a short period of time to submit your Conservation Certification application? Then this webinar was designed for you. We’ve condensed the most important information from our three webinar series* into one.

You’ll learn:

  • Key differences between Conservation Certification and previous format
  • Conservation Certification structure
  • Base requirements for projects to be eligible for certification
  • Review of key new application questions

*For a more in-depth review of the above topics, see these other webinars: Applying for Conservation Certification for the First Time (on-demand), Application Questions and Categories: Tips on Completing a Conservation Certification Application (on-demand), and Using the Conservation Certification Website (on-demand).

 We recommend that you sign up and log in to Conservation Certification and familiarize yourself with the basics of the online platform prior to the webinar.

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Invasive Species: Resources and Techniques | Part 2

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Land managers have a wide range of techniques available to them in preventing, detecting and controlling invasive species. This webinar will provide a broad view of these management techniques focusing heavily on terrestrial invasive species.  Through case studies, we will highlight the benefits of each of these techniques and explain how they can be used in practice.

Note: Given the limited time, this webinar is not a comprehensive review of management techniques; rather, it is an informative session to provide the audience with useful resources and proven techniques.

This webinar is the second in a two-part series of webinars. The first, Invasive Species: An Introduction | Part 1, is also available on-demand. While is it not mandatory to view Part 1 before participating in this webinar, it is recommended.

Presenter:

  • Shefali Mehta, PhD

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Green Infrastructure: Engineering to Benefit Business and Biodiversity

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Living solutions to environmental challenges on corporate lands
Sponsored by Heidelberg Materials

Green infrastructure is versatile, beneficial and well-suited to corporate properties of all types — from industrial facilities and suburban corporate campuses, to office buildings in dense urban areas. While the specific techniques, project scale and designs will vary from location to location, the  principles of green infrastructure are universally applicable. Green infrastructure is therefore remarkably versatile as a solution for corporate landscapes.

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The Critical Role of the Private Sector in Species Recovery and Protection

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How Companies are Prioritizing Species of Concern Conservation Programs
Sponsored by the Alliance for America’s Fish & Wildlife

In the U.S., 80 percent of the habitat that species listed under the Endangered Species Act depend on exists on private lands. Therefore, leadership by business, across all scales of land holdings, is essential to species protection and recovery. These businesses understand that compliance with endangered species conservation programs generate a return on investment that can include reduced costs, a secured social license to operate and an increase in public support.

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