Date: 11/4/2025
Subject: Continuing Education Opportunities
From: Margie Smotherman
Dear NCAMN
Below are some Continuing Education programs for you check out. Remember, you will need 8 hours of Continuing Education yearly to be certified.
Some of these are coming up this week so check them out.
I will be sending these out weekly. Let me know if there are events that I have missed.
NCAMN Continuing Education Coordinator
Margie Smotherman
November 5, 4-5 pm Grow Native! Webinar: Overwintering Habits of Moths, Butterflies & Bees by MoPrairie.org.
Join entomologist Chris Hartley, of the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House, and explore the overwintering strategies of Missouri’s native moths, butterflies, and bees. Learn how to help increase the chance of survival for these invertebrates in your own yard, and enjoy their benefits and beauty year after year.
This free webinar, to be held via Zoom, will include a presentation and a live question-and-answer session.
Register Here
November 11, 2025 - 12:00 PM New Frontier: Opportunities and Challenges in Incorporating dMRV into Carbon Accounting from the Yale Forest Forum
This talk will explore current opportunities and constraints to use remote sensing and dMRV in the nature-based carbon market. Castle and Silva will discuss the specific opportunities dMRV presents for more transparent and efficient carbon accounting, alongside the current technical, data, and policy challenges that must be overcome for its widespread market integration.
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Register for this Speaker Series
November 19, at 4 pm ET to learn how to take action for birds across the Americas. In this webinar, Garrett Rhyne, our Southeast Motus Station Coordinator, will talk about the wonder of migration and how we are using technology to track bird movement. Kaitlyn Parkins, ABC's Glass Collisions Program Coordinator, will share the marvels of backyard birds and the steps she's taken to make her home a safe place for birds. Finally, Lindsay Adrean, Northwest Program Officer, will focus on the Marbled Murrelet, its wondrous forest habitat, and enjoying the outdoors in ways that also help birds. RSVP NOW
Thursday, November 20, 2025 6 pm “Living in the Liberated Landscape: My Yard” presented by Larry Weaner from the chapter of Ozark Wild Ones. A link will be sent with registration. Learn how to design gardens that consider the reproductive abilities of plants, the ecological processes that affect those plants, and the wildlife that those plants can support
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Saturday, November 22, 2025. Baxter County Library
4:00pm–5:00pm Saturn - If you like it put a ring on it presented by our own Jeff Hoeper. Stay for the star Party after the presentation.
Register for this event
Here is a link with several videos by Eric Fuselier of the Ozark Native Plant Society. These videos are older but still qualified.
• Winter Botany https://www.youtube.com/live/rlQgJW6xVng?si=LoAvxYxrspFqWN5O
• Ozark Native Plants https://youtu.be/lLmWHKs4xVE?si=hjgN0fkBq44iNhvV