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Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2018

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Eric Olson

UW Extension Lakes
Director
Stevens Point, WI

https://uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/UWEXLakes/Pages/default.aspx

Lake associations, lake districts, volunteering to protect lakes, Healthy Lakes, Fish Sticks, shoreland restoration, watershed management

6:00pm

Featured Event! Welcome to Wisconsin Social Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am

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

10:00am

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

12:00pm

Lunch Break on own N/A

1:20pm

SYMPOSIA-02: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Roles in Midwest Conservation Science 102A

1:40pm

SYMPOSIA-02: Collaborative Approach to Assess the Current Condition of Priority Natural Resources in Two National Parks 102A

2:00pm

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

2:20pm

SYMPOSIA-02: The Importance and Application of Social Science Research in Protected Area Management 102A

2:40pm

SYMPOSIA-02: Collaborative Studies on Wolf Ecology in the Greater Voyageurs National Park Ecosystem 102A

3:00pm

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

3:20pm

SYMPOSIA-01: Monarch Eggs and Caterpillars, Data, Data Management, and Data Quality: A Case Study 101B

3:40pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Large Woody Debris and Fish Habitat Structure Additions: Picking the Right Lakes, Setting Expectations, and How to Best Implement 102D&E

4:00pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Advancing Aquatic Vegetation Management for Fish 102D&E

4:20pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Nuisance “Weeds” or Critical Fish Habitat: Balancing Trade Offs with Minnesota’s Aquatic Plant Management Program 102D&E

4:40pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Wisconsin’s Healthy Lakes Initiative: Working with Lakefront Property Owners to Apply Best Management Practices 102D&E

7:30pm

Time on Own N/A UW-Madison and UW-Stevens Point Alumni & Friends Combined Reception Ballroom A/B

8:00am

SYMPOSIA-10: Opportunities and Challenges in Local Management of Recreational Fisheries Landscapes: Theory and Practice 103A

8:20am

SYMPOSIA-10: The Evolving Roles of Wisconsin Lake Organizations in Caring for Public Trust Resources 103A

8:40am

SYMPOSIA-10: Demographics, Activities, and Concerns of Minnesota Lake Associations 103A

9:00am

SYMPOSIA-10: Partnerships for Managing Wisconsin Trout Streams: Engagement, Trust and a Better Managed Resource 103A

9:20am

SYMPOSIA-10: Leveraging Local Passion to Improve Outcomes: Civic Organizing as a Best Management Practice 103A

9:40am

SYMPOSIA-10: Fish Sticks: Building Local Capacity to Implement Fish Sticks Projects 103A

10:00am

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

10:20am

SYMPOSIA-10: Encouraging Civic Engagement in Fisheries Management 103A

10:40am

SYMPOSIA-10: City Staff Using DNR Methods to Survey Local Fisheries 103A

11:00am

SYMPOSIA-10: Optimization of Oxbow Restoration Benefits for Both the Farmer and the Conservationist 103A

11:20am

SYMPOSIA-10: The Little Rapids Restoration Project: A Local, State and Federal Partnership to Improve Habitat and Remove Beneficial Use Impairments from the St. Marys River Area of Concern 103A

12:00pm

Lunch Break on own N/A

1:20pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Combining Invasive Species Risk Assessments with Climate Change Scenarios to Predict Future Invaders in the Great Lakes 102D&E

1:40pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Effects of 2, 4-D Herbicide Treatments Used to Control Eurasian Watermilfoil on Fish and Zooplankton in Northern Wisconsin Lakes 102D&E

2:00pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: From Water Chemistry to Fish: The Impacts of Zebra Mussels Across Multiple Trophic Levels 102D&E

2:20pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Implementation of an Aquatic Invasive Species Early Detection Program on Lake Superior 102D&E

2:40pm

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: A Lakewide Survey of Asian Clam (Corbicula fluminea) Distribution at Warmwater Discharges in Lake Michigan 102D&E

3:20pm

SYMPOSIA-11: Modeling Effects of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) Exposures on Fish Populations 102C

3:40pm

SYMPOSIA-11: From Simple to Complex: Behavioral Changes in Fish Exposed to Contaminants of Emerging Concern Singly and in Mixture 102C

4:00pm

SYMPOSIA-11: Environmentally Derived Urban Mixtures of Contaminants of Emerging Concern Alter Reproduction in Fathead Minnows over Three Generations 102C

4:20pm

SYMPOSIA-12: One Health and the Ecosystem Health Perspective 103A

4:40pm

RIVERS & OXBOWS: The Importance of Field Assessments in Modeling Fish Passage of Barriers in Great Lakes Tributaries 103E

6:00pm

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

7:00am

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Wisconsin's Lakes Partnership 103C

8:20am

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: What’s in a Name? The Case for Discontinuing the Term Asian Carp 103C

8:40am

SYMPOSIA-14: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Aquatic Invasive Species in the Ontario and Beyond 102A

9:00am

SYMPOSIA-14: Collaborating Across Quality of Life to Achieve Measurable Outcomes for Invasive Species Management 102A

9:20am

GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: Managing Phragmites with Science on Your Side 103D

9:40am

SYMPOSIA-14: Collaborative Multi-jurisdictional Aquatic Invasive Species Control 102A

10:20am

GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: The Wisconsin Lake Leaders Institute: Building Future Lake Champions Through Education and Engagement 103D

10:40am

GENERAL FISHERIES & WILDLIFE: Developing and Sustaining a Lakeshore Habitat Restoration Training for Professionals in Wisconsin, USA 103D

11:00am

SYMPOSIA-15: Engaging Community in the Revitalization of the Kinnickinnic River Corridor 101B

11:20am

SYMPOSIA-15: Citizen Science Based Water Quality Monitoring in the Milwaukee River Basin 101B

11:40am

SYMPOSIA-15: Community and Conservation: Studying Urban Wetland Biodiversity in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin 101B

12:00pm

Conference Adjourns N/A