The Earth’s climate is changing. Impacts - including higher temperatures, warming water temperatures, rising sea levels, and longer periods of extreme weather - are already being felt in the Chesapeake …

Speakers: Bill Selbig, USGS Rebecca Dohn, City of Nashville A community with dense overhead tree canopy may benefit from reduced stormwater runoff volume through interception, transpiration, and infiltration but may also suffer from excess nutrients leached to nearby receiving waters from leaf litter. Bill Selbig will highlight ongoing research to help managers assess stormwater volume reduction potential …

The Culture-Ecology Bond: Perspectives for Designers Culture and ecology exist in a dynamic relationship: culture shapes ecology and vice versa. Our 2020 conference will explore this feedback loop as it pertains to landscape design and management. From historical as well as contemporary perspectives, our presenters will consider the complex, sometimes overlooked ways in which culture …

Registration is open now for MAHSC.  Excellent sessions! Many CBLP CEUs! In addition to the regular MAHSC sessions, CBLP is hosting a special workshop, designed for maintenance crews and crew leaders, on Thursday, January 16. Send your crew or favorite contractor! Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional Program - ​Sustainable Stormwater BMP Management Certificate Training This one-day …

Up to 8.5 CBLP CEUs are available.

Join CBLP staff, Beth Ginter and Katie Pinkham, for this free webinar to learn how to log your CBLP CEUs  and "hands on" experience, using our online forms.  Katie and Beth will also answer your questions about CBLP recertification. There is no charge, but you must register in advance. CBLP-Tracking and Reporting CEU Hours Webinar …

The Forestry Workgroup at the Chesapeake Bay Program invites you to a webinar mini-series we are calling Financing Forests February. Who:  Chesapeake Bay partners and others interested in learning about emerging finance markets for restoration and conservation on (primarily) private forest lands. When:  Fridays in February 2020.  11 AM-noon EST.  All sessions will be recorded for later …

The Penn-Del Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture will hold its 55th Annual Shade Tree Symposium this February at the Lancaster Marriott and Convention Center. Two days of continuing education sessions will cover a range of topics including tree care, climbing techniques, pests and disease, plant health care, utility arboriculture and vegetation management, and municipal arboriculture. …

"Uncertain Times, Reliable Gardens" Presented by Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Central Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association, and Virginia Cooperative Extension Join seasoned gardeners and green industry professionals to explore how concepts of beauty and order are changing based on deep research into how plants behave and how they are reacting to climate change.  the importance …

This FREE Workshop will cover: - Design & installation specifications for common residential BMPs. - Basic information about the County's residential storm water program . - Sustainable Landscaping Best Practices. - How to use the County's GIS, our new rain garden sizing calculator, and determining drainage areas. - On site BMP tour & discussion. - …