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Monday, January 29
 

7:00am CST

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am CST

Plenary Session, Awards Presentation & Ignite Session Ballroom A/B

1:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-03: Five Decades (or More) of Chronic Wasting Disease: Lessons Learned 102C

1:40pm CST

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Telemetry Drones and GPS Collars: What Your Engineering Department Can Do for You 103B

2:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-02: Pollinators in Our Parks – How Is Invasive Plant Management Impacting Native Bees in National Parks? 102A

2:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-04: Strategic Prioritization of Grassland Habitat Types in Wisconsin 102B

2:40pm CST

CARNIVORES: How Do Domestic Dogs Influence Intraguild Interactions Among Native Canids? 103C

3:20pm CST

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: The Effects of Large-scale Wetland Loss on Network Connectivity of the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska 103B

3:40pm CST

CARNIVORES: Public Preferences for Management Actions in Response to Various Black Bear – Human Interactions 103C

4:00pm CST

CARNIVORES: Bobcat Home Range Size, Home Range Overlap, and Habitat Utilization in Northern Wisconsin 103C

4:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-03: Agency Trust and Perceived Risk Toward Chronic Wasting Disease in Illinois 102C

4:40pm CST

ASIAN CARP: Electrotrawling as a Method to Mass Remove Invasive Carp 103D

6:30pm CST

Purdue Department of Forestry & Natural Resources Reception Hilton: Oak

7:30pm CST

UW-Madison and UW-Stevens Point Alumni & Friends Combined Reception Ballroom A/B
 
Tuesday, January 30
 

7:00am CST

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am CST

UNGULATES: Elk Monitoring in Wisconsin: Trail Cameras and Citizen Science 103C

8:20am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: A Ranavirus-associated Mass Mortality Event in an Illinois Amphibian Community 101B

8:40am CST

UNGULATES: Deer Recruitment in Wisconsin: New Survey Methods 103C

9:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Can Turtles Serve as Bio-indicators of Environmental Health? Applications of Conservation Physiology in Midwestern Herpetology 101B

9:20am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Urban Wildlife: An Important Focus for Conservation 101B

9:40am CST

UNGULATES: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Antler Point Restrictions to Achieve Various White-tailed Deer Management Goals 103C

10:20am CST

UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Disentangling Effects of Fire, Habitat, and Climate on an Endangered Prairie-Specialist Butterfly 103B

10:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Quantifying Home Ranges and Hibernacula Characteristics of Captive-Reared, Recently-Released Juvenile Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) 101B

11:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Soft-Release May Not Enhance Translocation Efforts for Massasaugas (Sistrurus catenatus) 101B

11:20am CST

UNGULATES: Pilot Testing a Program to Allow Hunters to Sample Their Own Deer for CWD 103C

11:40am CST

UNGULATES: Long-term Collaborative Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management, Using Focused Rewards Guided by Prevalence Distributions: a Proposal 103C

1:20pm CST

SMALL MAMMALS: Effects of Age, Sex, and Population Dynamics on Dispersal of American Martens 103B

1:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-06: The Influence of Landscape Factors and Prescribed Fire on the Occupancy Dynamics of Blue-Spotted Salamanders 101B

2:00pm CST

SMALL MAMMALS: American Marten Habitat Use: A Resource Selection Function for Michigan's Northern Lower Peninsula 103B

2:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Home Range and Movements of Spiny Softshell Turtles (Apalone spinifera), Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta), and Snapping Turtles (Chelydra serpentina) in an Urban Minnesota Lake 101B

2:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Preliminary Habitat Modeling of Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata) and Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in Indiana 101B

3:20pm CST

STURGEON, ESOCIDS & COREGONIDS: Muskellunge Population Responses to Angler Catch-and-Release Practices in Escanaba Lake, Wisconsin, 1987-2014 103D

3:40pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Landscape Genetic Analysis of a Planned Prairie Corridor Through a Midwestern Agricultural Landscape Using the Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) as an Indicator 103C

4:00pm CST

SMALL MAMMALS: Testing the Efficacy of Chitosan as a Potential Treatment for White-Nose Syndrome 103B

4:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Trade-offs Between Temperature, Predation Risk, and Nest Survival in the Blanding's Turtle 101B

4:40pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Effects of Anthropogenic Structures on the Long-Distance Movements of Lesser Prairie-Chickens 103C

6:00pm CST

Trade Show & Poster Social and Student Research-in-Progress Posters Ballroom C & Foyer