Conservation@Home Professional Training:
Small-Scale Native Landscapes
Webinar 1: Be Salt Smart and Protect Your Native Landscaping
Tuesday, November 4th
12:00 — 1:00pm
Winters in Northeastern Illinois bring the challenge of dealing with snow and ice, which generally means using salt. While we need to keep everyone safe, salt is very damaging to both our natural and built environments. Once salt goes down, it doesn’t go away. Excess salt harms plants and soil, degrades our rivers, wetlands and groundwater, and damages vehicles and buildings. Part of the Conservation@Home Professional Training series, this webinar provides the opportunity to learn from the Salt Smart Collaborative about practices that use less salt as well as salt-tolerant plant selections you can use to protect your home or business while not sacrificing safety during the winter.
Speaker:
Hanna Miller is a Watershed Project Manager at The Conservation Foundation working on reducing the impacts of chlorides. She is the workgroup coordinator for the Chicago Area Waterways Chloride Workgroup and the co-coordinator for the Salt Smart Collaborative. Hanna graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in Geoscience. Outside of work, Hanna can often be found cycling along one of the many waterways in the Chicago area.
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