Anyone have good CE sources that go beyond basic BMPs and get into practical design tweaks — like integrating ET-based irrigation and converting out-of-play turf to natives? I’m updating our five-year plan after a 12-acre rough naturalization and need courses or webinars that carry GCSAA credits and cover water budgets, habitat corridors, and maintenance impacts.
After our 12-acre rough naturalization, the most helpful tweak was carving out a separate ET “managed deficit” hydrozone for natives at about 70% ETo and locking that into the water budget before we priced the five‑year plan. Are you pulling ET from an on-site station or a network feed? For CE, the USGA Green Section Water Resource Center webinar on course water budgets and habitat corridors has offered GCSAA points when registered through GCSAA; it’s solid on budgeting but lighter on maintenance impacts: https://www.usga.org/course-care/water-resource-center.html.
I’d start with the @GCSAA Learning Hub — filter Water Management and Environmental Stewardship; not glamorous, but those on‑demand sessions carry credits and get specific on ET scheduling, defensible water budgets, and corridor layout. USGA/ASGCA webinars are solid too but often need to be submitted for external points; link for the hub: Learning Hub Maintenance. If you need live instead of on‑demand, the Hub calendar has both.
Piggybacking on @jameson_k9: USGA Green Section LIVE often carries GCSAA points when you attend live — see the ET/hydrozoning and native conversion sessions here: https://www.usga.org/course-care/green-section-live.html. We used their worksheet to spin off a corridor zone at about 65% ETo with its own PRVs, which cut pump hours and spray passes; small caveat — swap in site‑specific crop coefficients, not the defaults — do you need live dates this winter?
Audubon International’s ACSP for Golf webinars have been the most practical for me; the Water Budgeting + Habitat Corridors session usually carries GCSAA points when live — check their calendar: https://auduboninternational.org. > swap in site‑specific crop coefficients Agree — using Kc from our on‑site station let me run the native rough at about 0.68 ETo and tie it to a monthly meter check. Do you want winter live dates or is on‑demand fine?
Building on @v_phillips67, the Irrigation Association’s advanced scheduling webinars (ET-based programming, hydrozoning) are often accepted for GCSAA credit when you add your member number — start here: https://www.irrigation.org/Events/Webinars; small caveat: it varies by session. Want recs for the ones that tie water budgets directly to native rough conversions?
For your ‘five-year plan,’ try GEO OnCourse webinars; verify GCSAA points here: Learning Hub Maintenance — strong on habitat corridors.
But building on @m_russell88: USGA Green Section’s water‑budgeting + naturalized‑rough webinars were the most actionable for me. Bring your pump logs and ET data — they’ll help you build a zone‑by‑zone budget template, and it showed up as CE on my profile after the quiz; are you after arid or humid examples?