Training for professionals working in soils, erosion control, water quality, public works, engineering, roads, planning, consulting, and septic designers & installers.
Topics for the day were:
Erosion Prevention & Sediment Control on Small Construction Sites
Hydraulically Applied Erosion Control
Three Dimensional Slope Stabilization Project Review
Proper Culvert Installation & Maintenance
Soil Amendments
Underground Storm Water Storage
Perimeter Sediment Control
Shoreline Stabilization Using Gabion Baskets
Pollinator Habitats, Native Plant Species, Invasive Species
Continuing Education Credits, available for these workshops
– NH Department of Environmental Services, DES Subsurface designers & installers.
– EnviroCert International, Professional Development Hours
– VT Department of Environmental Conservation, non-soil credits
A several of these projects have been overseen and completed by NRCS. The District helped secure funding for a portion these projects. A before and after picture of a couple of these projects.
These projects are designed to preserve agriculture lands but stabilizing stream banks and to restore & preserve natural wildlife habitats.
A cooperative funding agreement between the NH Association of Conservation Districts and the CT Council on Soil and Water Conservation To provide technical assistance to the Long Island Sound Watershed – Regional Conservation Partnership Program (LISW-RCPP) October 2016 – December 2019
Dalton, NH Wednesday, August 21, 2019 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
About the Event
Join the Dannis Family and Master Naturalist,Dr. Rick Van de Poll, for a tour of a rich and diverse woodland in the upper Connecticut Valley region. The views alone are breathtaking not to mention the diversity of old growth forests and ridgeline habitats. https://abovethefifteenmilefalls.com/After our walk, we will discuss mushrooms around the table, where poisonous will be separated from edible, and medicinal will be highlighted.
Rick Van de Poll, Ph.D., is the principal of Ecosystem Management Consultants in Sandwich, NH, a company that since 1988 has offered natural resource management services throughout New England. With 40 years’ teaching experience, Dr. Van de Poll has completed natural resource inventories and management plans on over 325,000 acres in the Northeast. He is a member of the NH Plant Task Force, which surveys rare plant populations in NH, and is President of the Northeast Mycological Federation.
Space is limited, please register by emailing the Coös County Conservation District at carolyn.mcquiston@nh.nacdnet.net
Directions will be provided by return email to registered participants.
Participants should be prepared to walk in the woods, some of which is steep! Please come prepared with comfortable walking shoes, and dress for the weather. Rain or shine. The workshop is free.
Space is limited, please register by emailing the Coös County Conservation District at 
