| Educating Real Estate Professional and Volunteer Steward Audiences
Workshop Planning for the Real Estate Professional Audience
Real estate professionals can facilitate the transfer of conservation and stewardship tools information to the large number of parcel owners and buyers with whom they interact. When your primary audience is real estate professionals, plan on a separate workshop effort. Recruit knowledgeable speakers from your partner organizations, including land trust professionals, county planners and assessors, and extension educators.
Real estate education programs offer continuing education credits that are required for real estate professionals to maintain their licenses. For example, Island County offered a 7.5 clock hour class for real estate agents, appraisers and assessors during which the agents learned about both conservation tools and land use regulations.
These and many other natural resource topics are covered in WSU Extension real estate professional education programs. Visit these web sites or contact the following people for more information on WSU real estate training programs in Puget Sound counties:
Educating the Volunteer Steward Audience
WSU Extension volunteers such as watershed stewards, livestock advisors, forest advisors, and beach watchers learn about conservation tools during stewardship training, then work with or educate landowners in their communities. Several PowerPoint presentations have been developed and delivered to King, Island, and Jefferson county volunteers. The presentations are approximately one-hour in length, and summarize the following topic area:
- Conservation across the landscape (mountains to sound, wild land, rural land, urban land)
- Conservation Issues (focus on environmental impacts)
- Tools and Solutions (regulatory-based approach and voluntary/incentive approach)
- Conservation status of county
PDF versions of PowerPoint presentations are included below:
Photo information: Shine Tidelands, Jefferson County, by Paul Racette.
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