REGAIN Office Hours: Landowner Leadership on Climate in the Upper Midwest

Jane Jordan December 4, 2021

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Date: December 8, 2021

Description: Teresa Opheim, Project Director of Climate Land Leaders with Sharing Our Roots, shares her work to bring landowners together to help tackle the climate crisis by establishing conservation goals for their land. Climate Land Leaders facilitates a peer-to-peer landowner network to increase plant and animal diversity on their land, keeping their soils covered and roots in the ground year around and planting trees and shrubs on cropland.

Presenters: Teresa Opheim – Project Director of Climate Land Leaders, Sharing Our Roots

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Tags: Agronomy: Soil health, Community development: Rural community leadership, Conservation practices: Agroforestry, Conservation practices: Cover cropping, Conservation practices: Crop rotation diversification and intercropping, Conservation practices: Edge of field practices, Conservation practices: Managed livestock grazing systems, Conservation practices: No-till and conservation tillage, Ecosystem services: Climate change adaptation, Organizations: Leadership development, Organizations: Racial equity and justice

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