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Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2018

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John Moriarty

Three Rivers Park Distirct
John Moriarty

7:00am

Conference Registration Desk Open Ballroom A Foyer

6:00pm

Featured Event! Welcome to Wisconsin Social Ballroom C & Foyer

7:00am

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Ballroom C & Foyer

8:00am

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

1:20pm

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY: WILDLIFE HABITAT: Influence of Spatial Alignment on Photographic Detection Rates at Remotely Triggered Camera Stations 103B

1:40pm

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

2:00pm

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

3:20pm

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

3:40pm

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

5:00pm

Student / Professional Networking Mixer Hilton: Crystal Ballroom

8:00am

SYMPOSIA-08: Minnesota Statewide Marshbird Survey: A Framework to Help Prioritize Wetlands for Conservation Actions 102B

8:20am

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

8:40am

SYMPOSIA-06: Impact of Snake Fungal Disease on Population Viability 101B

9:00am

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

9:20am

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

9:40am

SYMPOSIA-06: Landscape Genetics Reveal Possible Drought and Glacial Refugia Are Driving Population Structure of Northern Leopard Frog in North Dakota 101B

10:20am

SYMPOSIA-06: Using eDNA Surveys to Detect a Fossorial Species of Conservation Concern, the Kirtland Snake (Clonophis kirtlandii) in Northwest Ohio 101B SYMPOSIA-09: Bet Hedging in an Era of Rapid Change: Protecting Wildlife by “Conserving Nature’s Stage” 102C UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Disentangling Effects of Fire, Habitat, and Climate on an Endangered Prairie-Specialist Butterfly 103B

10:40am

SYMPOSIA-06: Quantifying Home Ranges and Hibernacula Characteristics of Captive-Reared, Recently-Released Juvenile Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) 101B UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Modeling Pollinator Conservation Targets Within Rights-of-Way 103B

11:00am

SYMPOSIA-06: Soft-Release May Not Enhance Translocation Efforts for Massasaugas (Sistrurus catenatus) 101B UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Comparing Bee and Grasshopper Communities in Missouri's Reconstructed and Remnant Prairies 103B

11:20am

SYMPOSIA-06: The Chambana Box Turtle Project: A Collaborative Effort Using Environmental Enrichment to Inform Reintroduction Techniques for Terrapene Carolina 101B UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Planting for Pollinators: Evaluation of Four Prairie Seed Mixes 103B

11:40am

(CANCELLED) SYMPOSIA-06: Community, Health, and Stress Response of Reintroduced and Resident Amphibians to Oak Woodland Restoration 101B UPLAND GAME BIRDS & POLLINATORS: Impacts of Neonicotinoid Seed-treatment Use on Native Pollinator Abundance and Diversity in Missouri Agroecosystems 103B

1:20pm

SYMPOSIA-06: Weather Patterns and Habitat Usage of Adult Eastern Tiger Salamanders in the Prairie Pothole Region of West-Central Minnesota 101B

1:40pm

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

2:20pm

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

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

3:20pm

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

SYMPOSIA-06: Plant Traits in the Aquatic Environment Have Lasting Effects on Larval and Post-metamorphic Anurans 101B

4:00pm

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: If We Build It THEY Will Come: Restored Prairies and Grassland Birds 103C TWS North Central Section Annual Member & Executive Board Meeting Hilton: Regency Ballroom SYMPOSIA-06: Tiger Salamander Larval Size, Density, and Diet in the Prairie Potholes of West-Central Minnesota 101B

4:20pm

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Patch Size Dynamics of Birds in Mixed-Grass Prairies: Why Might the Influence of Patch Size Vary 103C SYMPOSIA-06: Trade-offs Between Temperature, Predation Risk, and Nest Survival in the Blanding's Turtle 101B

6:00pm

Trade Show & Poster Social and Student Research-in-Progress Posters Ballroom C & Foyer Poster Display: Autumn Habitat Selection of Eastern Red-backed Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) in Delaware County, Indiana Ballroom C & Foyer

8:40am

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Reducing Lead Exposure in Bald Eagles in the Upper Midwest 102D&E

9:20am

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

11:00am

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 LIGHTING TALK: Insecticide Exposure Risk for Grassland Wildlife on Public Land in Southwestern Minnesota 103C

11:10am

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

11:30am

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