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Cassandra Young

Wisconsin DNR
Wildlife Technician
Janesville, WI
Sunday, January 28
 

9:00am CST

Workshop. Midwest Leadership Series 102A

6:00pm CST

Featured Event! Welcome to Wisconsin Social Ballroom C & Foyer
 
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

10:00am CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

12:00pm CST

Lunch Break on own N/A

1:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-04: Birds, Grasslands, and the Need for Collaboration 102B

1:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-04: Using Grazing to Manage Grasslands for Waterfowl and Migratory Bird Production Goals on a 53,000-acre Wetland Management District 102B

2:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-03: CWD Management and Response in Wisconsin: Lessons Learned and New Beginnings 102C

2:20pm CST

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

2:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-04: Prairie Contour Buffer Strips Serve as Bird Nesting Habitat in Midwestern Agricultural Landscapes 102B

3:00pm CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

3:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-04: Beyond Wetlands: The Importance of Grassland Habitat for Breeding Waterfowl in an Agricultural Landscape 102B

3:40pm CST

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Impacts of Prescribed Fire Intensity and Seasonality on Woody Vegetation 103B

4:20pm CST

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

4:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-03: Panel Discussion on Opportunities for CWD Collaboration 102C

5:00pm CST

Student / Professional Networking Mixer Hilton: Crystal Ballroom

7:30pm CST

Time on Own N/A
 
Tuesday, January 30
 

7:00am CST

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

8:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Impact of Snake Fungal Disease on Population Viability 101B 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 UNGULATES: Pregnancy Rates and Body Condition of White-tailed Deer in Wisconsin 103C UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Does Diversity Matter? Ring-necked Pheasant Nest Site Selection and Nest Survival in Grassland Reconstructions 103B

9:20am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Urban Wildlife: An Important Focus for Conservation 101B SYMPOSIA-08: Marsh Bird Occupancy of Wetlands in the Glacial Habitat Restoration Area of Wisconsin 102B UNGULATES: Increased Overwinter Mortalities of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Fawns During a Drought Year 103C UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Do Pheasants Use Spring Cover Crops? 103B

9:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-08: Waterfowl Use of Restored Wetlands in the Glacial Habitat Restoration Area of Wisconsin 102B UNGULATES: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Antler Point Restrictions to Achieve Various White-tailed Deer Management Goals 103C

10:00am CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

10:20am CST

UNGULATES: The Wisconsin Deer Management Assistance Program: Improving Relationships One Landowner at a Time 103C 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 UNGULATES: Retention of Youth Deer Hunters in Nebraska 103C UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Modeling Pollinator Conservation Targets Within Rights-of-Way 103B

11:00am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Soft-Release May Not Enhance Translocation Efforts for Massasaugas (Sistrurus catenatus) 101B SYMPOSIA-09: An Uncertain Climate for Deer Wintering Complexes: Scenario Planning for Complex Adaptive Systems 102C UNGULATES: Do City Deer Really Live Differently Than Rural Deer? 103C

11:20am CST

SYMPOSIA-06: The Chambana Box Turtle Project: A Collaborative Effort Using Environmental Enrichment to Inform Reintroduction Techniques for Terrapene Carolina 101B UNGULATES: Pilot Testing a Program to Allow Hunters to Sample Their Own Deer for CWD 103C UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Planting for Pollinators: Evaluation of Four Prairie Seed Mixes 103B

11:40am CST

(CANCELLED) SYMPOSIA-06: Community, Health, and Stress Response of Reintroduced and Resident Amphibians to Oak Woodland Restoration 101B UNGULATES: Long-term Collaborative Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management, Using Focused Rewards Guided by Prevalence Distributions: a Proposal 103C UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Impacts of Neonicotinoid Seed-treatment Use on Native Pollinator Abundance and Diversity in Missouri Agroecosystems 103B

12:00pm CST

Lunch Break on own N/A

1:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-12: USGS National Wildlife Health Center Collaborations with Partners on Wildlife Disease Response 103A SMALL MAMMALS: Effects of Age, Sex, and Population Dynamics on Dispersal of American Martens 103B

1:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-12: An Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Influenza in Minnesota: Lessons Learned 103A

2:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-12: A Cooperative Management Approach Toward the Elimination of Raccoon Rabies from the U.S. 103A

2:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-08: Challenges of Wetland Restoration Monitoring--If You Build It Will They Come, If They Come Will You Know It? 102B SYMPOSIA-12: The Wisconsin Bald Eagle Bio-Sentinel Program: Using Bald Eagles as Indicators of Ecosystem Health 103A

3:00pm CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

3:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-06: Snake Occupancy and Abundance in Restored Grasslands 101B SMALL MAMMALS: Survival of Gray and Fox Squirrels in Minnesota: A Case Study of the Effects of Hunting 103B

3:40pm CST

SMALL MAMMALS: Modeling the Effects of White-nose Syndrome on the Bat Community of Wisconsin 103B

4:00pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: If We Build It THEY Will Come: Restored Prairies and Grassland Birds 103C

4:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-12: One Health and the Ecosystem Health Perspective 103A SMALL MAMMALS: Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Timber Harvesting Techniques on the Bat Community in a Midwestern Hardwood Forest 103B

6:00pm CST

Trade Show & Poster Social and Student Research-in-Progress Posters Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Did the Massasauga (Sistrurus Catenatus) Cross the Road? Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Evaluating Potential Effects of Camera Density on Capture and Recapture Rates of Bobcats Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Evaluating the Effect of Forced Re-nesting on Whooping Crane Nest Success Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Floral and Soil Stoichiometric (C:N) Response to Prescribed Fire in Tallgrass Prairie Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Forensic Methods for Species Determination of Unknown Wildlife Carcasses or Remains Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Herpetofauna Community Response to Bison (Bison Bison) Grazing in Tallgrass Prairie Remnants Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Measuring Ruffed Grouse Drumming Log Characteristics Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Point Count Data Error Rates from a Large-scale, Statewide Avian Study: The Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Population Change, Nest-site Selection, and Nesting Success in a Restored Population of Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, 1986-2016 Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Population Demographics of the North American River Otter in Ohio After 12 Years of Harvest Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Risk-averse Foraging and Gray Fox Climbing Behavior Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. The Anthropogenic Effects on the Urban and Rural Coyote Diet Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. The Application of Prescribed Burns and Food Plots with White-tailed Deer in Northern Wisconsin Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. The Effect of Prescribed Fire and Deer Exclusion on an Oak-hickory Woodland of West-central Illinois Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. The Effect of Prescribed Fire, Landscape Position, and Deer Browsing on Spring Ephemerals in an Oak-hickory Woodland of West-central Illinois Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Tracking the Impacts of Bat White-nose Syndrome in Wisconsin with Citizen Scientists Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Understanding Relationships Between Habitat and Deer Demographics and Health Through Partnerships with DMAP Participants Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display. Wood Duck Demography in WI: Pilot Season Field Methods and Summary Ballroom C & Foyer Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Calibrating an Index to Predict Vole Activity and Damage in Cover-Cropped Soybean Fields Ballroom C & Foyer Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Genetic Diversity of the Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus) in Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Southwest Michigan Ballroom C & Foyer Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Impacts and Influence of Deer Density on Corn and Soybean Yields in Western Kentucky Ballroom C & Foyer Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Microhabitat use of Migrating Northern Saw-Whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus) Ballroom C & Foyer Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Non-target Species Occurrence at Bear Bait Sites Ballroom C & Foyer Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. The Evaluation of Cover Crops for Grassland Nesting Waterfowl in Eastern South Dakota Ballroom C & Foyer Student Research-in-Progress Poster Display. Waterfowl Hunter Recruitment, Retention, and Participation Trends Ballroom C & Foyer
 
Wednesday, January 31
 

7:00am CST

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Evaluating Indices of Full-Season Productivity for American Woodcock 102D&E WATERFOWL: Visibility Bias and Disturbance of Waterfowl During Aerial Surveys 102B

9:20am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: The Urban-Rural Divide in Fish & Wildlife Conservation Funding 102D&E GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: Managing Phragmites with Science on Your Side 103D HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Beaver vs. Trout: Untangling a Controversy in the Western Great Lakes (U.S.) Region 103C SYMPOSIA-13: Furbearer Trappers: Invasive Species Outreach and Detection Opportunities 101B WATERFOWL: Analysis of Canada Goose Movements in Relation to Midway International Airport Operations Using Satellite Telemetry 102B

9:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-13: Learning to Hunt: Adult-focused Hunter Recruitment and Retention in Michigan and Wisconsin 101B WATERFOWL: Response of Wetland Food Webs to Neonicotinoid Insecticide Contamination 102B

10:00am CST

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

10:20am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program: 80 Years of Conservation Success 102D&E

10:40am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: A Bird in the Hand: Shotguns, Deadly Oil Pits, Cute Kittens, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act 102D&E WATERFOWL: Waterfowl Hunter Satisfaction over the Years 102B

11:00am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Collaboration to Improve Fire Management Outcomes: Increasing the Application of Research to Prescribed Fire in the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Ecoregion 102D&E

11:10am CST

LIGHTING TALK: Understanding Attitudes Towards Controversial Subjects in Wildlife Management: How Students View Regulated Commercial Harvest 103C

11:20am CST

WATERFOWL: Status Update on Cranes and Crop Damage in the Upper Midwest 102B

11:30am CST

LIGHTING TALK: The Effect of Season of Prescribed Burning on Avian Communities in Minnesota Lowland Brushland 103C

11:40am CST

SYMPOSIA-15: Community and Conservation: Studying Urban Wetland Biodiversity in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin 101B WATERFOWL: Saving an American Icon: The Challenge and Successes of Reintroducing Whooping Cranes 102B

12:00pm CST

Conference Adjourns N/A