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Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2018

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1:20pm CST

CARNIVORES: Where Wolves Kill White-tailed Deer Fawns 103C

1:40pm CST

CARNIVORES: Do Wolves Ambush Beavers from Downwind Hunting Beds? 103C

2:00pm CST

CARNIVORES: Determining Coyote-Wolf Hybridization in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Using Mitochondrial DNA 103C

2:20pm CST

CARNIVORES: Recommendations for the Update of the Bad River Band Ma'iingan Plan 103C

2:40pm CST

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

3:20pm CST

CARNIVORES: The American Black Bear and Baited Hair-snares: A Quantitative Ethogram and Behavioral Analysis 103C

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

CARNIVORES: Estimating Density of Bobcats in Midwestern Landscapes Using Spatial Capture-Recapture Models 103C

4:40pm CST

CARNIVORES: Comparisons of Large Carnivore Spoor Density in the Ngamiland and Mababe Regions of Botswana from 2016 to 2017 103C

8:00am CST

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

8:20am CST

UNGULATES: Annual and Seasonal Home Ranges of Female Elk in Northwestern Minnesota 103C

8:40am CST

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

9:00am CST

UNGULATES: Pregnancy Rates and Body Condition of White-tailed Deer in Wisconsin 103C

9:20am CST

UNGULATES: Increased Overwinter Mortalities of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Fawns During a Drought Year 103C

9:40am CST

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

10:20am CST

UNGULATES: The Wisconsin Deer Management Assistance Program: Improving Relationships One Landowner at a Time 103C

10:40am CST

UNGULATES: Retention of Youth Deer Hunters in Nebraska 103C

11:00am CST

UNGULATES: Do City Deer Really Live Differently Than Rural Deer? 103C

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

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Geographic Variation in Songs of the Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) 103C

1:40pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Seasonal Habitat Use by Fledgling Cerulean Warblers (Setophaga cerulea) 103C

2:00pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Managing Breeding and Wintering Habitat for the Conservation of the Endangered Kirtland's Warbler in a Changing Climate 103C

2:20pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Range-wide Patterns of Migratory Connectivity and Nonbreeding Distribution of Vermivora Warblers 103C

2:40pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Response of Larval Lepidoptera and Their Avian Predators to Experimental Ice Storms in a Northeastern Forest 103C

3:20pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Global Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Diminishes Climate Change Vulnerability of Grassland Birds in North America 103C

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

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

4:20pm CST

FOREST & GRASSLAND SONGBIRDS: Patch Size Dynamics of Birds in Mixed-Grass Prairies: Why Might the Influence of Patch Size Vary 103C

4:40pm CST

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

8:00am CST

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

8:20am CST

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

8:40am CST

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Bridging the Social-Ecological Gap with Anglersheds 103C

9:00am CST

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Economic and Spatial Assessments of Angling at Small South Dakota Lakes 103C

9:20am CST

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Beaver vs. Trout: Untangling a Controversy in the Western Great Lakes (U.S.) Region 103C

9:40am CST

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Fishing for Answers: A Binational Analysis of Creel Survey Data in the St. Clair-Detroit River System (SCDRS) 103C

10:20am CST

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Angler Opposition to an Increase in the Minimum Length Limit for Walleye at Cedar Bluff Reservoir, Kansas 103C

10:40am CST

HUMAN DIMENSIONS & FISHERIES: Fishes of Hickory Creek Basin, Des Plaines River Drainage, Illinois: History, Politics, Climate, and the Need for Voucher Specimens 103C

11:00am CST

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

11:10am CST

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

11:20am CST

LIGHTING TALK: Walleye Age Estimation Using Otoliths and Dorsal Spines: Insights on Precision at a Statewide Level 103C

11:30am CST

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

11:40am CST

LIGHTING TALK: Effect of Riparian Alteration on Brook Trout Populations, Invertebrate Communities, and Stream Morphology 103C

11:50am CST

LIGHTING TALK: Trout Transfers: A Case for Increasing Size Structure in High Density Trout Streams 103C