Workshop and Field Trip Proposal Submission: 2025 Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference

Intro and Presenter Information

Thanks for your interest in sharing expertise at the 2025 Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference!

Time and Place
Conference: FRIDAY, March 21, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. UMass Amherst.
Field trips: Fridays or Saturdays of your choice, April - October 2025. Anywhere in Massachusetts.

Session Guidelines
Workshop sessions will be 75 minutes long, with at least 20 minutes reserved for questions and discussion. Formats can be classroom-style presentations, panels, or roundtable discussions. Proposals are welcome on any topic, and we especially encourage workshops that address conservation in environmental justice communities and/or nature-based solutions to climate change. Please propose no more than three presenters for a single workshop. If you plan for three presenters, please ensure they represent at least two different organizations so attendees can hear varied perspectives.

Field trips are walks and talks to be held outdoors in the morning or early afternoon. This year we invite proposals for field trips to be held on any Friday or Saturday from April through October, 2025. Field trips can be from 90 minutes to 3 hours in length and held anywhere in Massachusetts. These could be site visits to innovative projects, hands-on skill-building workshops, field-based discussions of challenges you're addressing, or simply tours highlighting an interesting property. Fields trips could also build upon or enhance conference workshop content, or be a deeper dive of a conference topic.

Proposal Deadline: Friday, October 11.

Important! You will not be able to Save & Return to this form, so we highly recommend that you write your answers in Word or similar, then cut and paste them into this form. You can view all questions from this PDF of the application.

If you are submitting more than one proposal, please submit one proposal at a time. Be sure to CLICK "SUBMIT" at the end of the form to submit your proposal.

The Program Committee will review all proposals and contact you by early December to let you know whether your proposal has been accepted. In order to provide greater breadth or depth to our overall program, the Committee may ask you to consider adjustments to your proposed session.

Each presenter will receive one complimentary conference registration.

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* 1. Contact Information:

First Name

Last Name

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* 2. For conference publicity, please provide a brief biography that describes your qualifications and/or experience relevant to the proposal you are submitting. (120 words max)

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* 3. Co-Presenter Contact Information (if applicable):

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* 4. For conference publicity, please provide a brief biography for your co-presenter that describes their qualifications and/or experience relevant to the proposal you are submitting. (120 words max)

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* 5. Third Presenter Contact Information (if applicable):

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* 6. For conference publicity, please provide a brief biography for your co-presenter that describes their qualifications and/or experience relevant to the proposal you are submitting. (120 words max)

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* 7. Is this a Field Trip proposal?

Yes