Idaho: January 16th 9-5
The Nature Conservancy
ID Field Office, Hailey, ID
Western Ag Biodiversity Practices Short
Courses
Learn the latest applied biodiversity enhancing practices in OR, ID and WA and how to implement them.
Sharpen your skills in beneficial insect ID and the native plant habitats that support them
Free for farmers and agricultural professionals
Washington:Febraury13th
9-5 Big Bend Community
College, Moses Lake, WA
• beneficial organism
and native plant field
identification coupled
with direct observation
of their associations
with on-farm
conservation practices
27th
Oregon; March
9-5
The Discovery Center,
The Dalles, OR
Winter short courses will:
• build basic skills in
beneficial organism and native
plant ID
• first-hand
experience of applied
conservation practices
and how and why
farmers adopt them
• explain key relationships
among crop pests, beneficial
insects and native pollinators
• teach habitat assessment,
mapping & how to integrate
conservation practices into
your farm production plan
TO REGISTER
CONTACT:
Gwendolyn Ellen
541-737-6272
gwendolyn@science.ore
gonstate.edu
The summer short courses
are designed to compliment
the winter courses by
providing more specific,
place-based, information and
an opportunity to apply
knowledge from the winter
short courses. on working
farms. They include:
Cooperators:
• an opportunity to
discuss the role of
adjacent, off-farm
habitats in supporting
on-farm biodiversity
and to learn how
farmers are integrating
habitats that support
beneficial insects on
their farms