2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

8:00am CST

Conference Registration Desk Open Grand Coatroom (4th Floor)

9:00am CST

W-04: An Overview of Structured Decision Making for Natural Resources (CAPACITY FULL) Mills 6 (4th Floor) W-05: Guerilla-Style, Know-Nothing Software Development Using ChatGPT Mills 3 (4th Floor) Benefits Declaration Workshop (Invitation Only) Sterling 9 (2nd Floor ) W-01: Introduction to Map Making in R (CAPACITY FULL) Grand B (4th Floor) W-02: Promoting Resilient Fish and Wildlife Populations through Disease Investigations Grand C (4th Floor) W-03: Traditional Age Structured Fish Population Modeling and Simulation Mills 9 (4th Floor)

12:00pm CST

Speaker Ready Room Open Mills 4 (4th Floor) W-09: Tour of the Hellbender Propagation Facility and Herpetarium at the St. Louis Zoo (CAPACITY FULL) Offsite

1:00pm CST

W-06: Playing with Privilege: Unpacking Privilege & Power in the Outdoors Grand A (4th Floor) W-07: Public Land and Natural Resource Policy in North America (CAPACITY FULL) Mills 3 (4th Floor) W-08: Wildlife Capture Techniques Mills 6 (4th Floor) Exhibitor Set-up Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

2:00pm CST

Salmonid Technical Committee Winter Business Meeting Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Mike Siepker

4:00pm CST

Joint Winter Business Meeting of the Centrarchid, Esocid, and Walleye Technical Committees Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Jason Gostiaux

5:00pm CST

Student Icebreaker Meet & Greet Grand FGH (4th Floor)

6:00pm CST

Welcome Networking Social - Sponsored by USFWS Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by St. Louis Zoo WildCare Institute Grand Foyer (4th Floor) Trade Show Open Grand Foyer (4th Floor) Speaker Ready Room Open Mills 4 (4th Floor) Conference Registration Desk Open Grand Coatroom (4th Floor)

8:00am CST

Plenary Session 1 and Awards Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ben Batten • Jim Inglis

10:05am CST

Coffee Break - Sponsored by Wildlife Management Institute Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

10:30am CST

Annual Membership Meeting – North Central Section of The Wildlife Society Grand C (4th Floor)Jeremy Holtz North Central Division AFS Business Meeting Grand A (4th Floor)Daniel Isermann MAFWA R3 Foundations Training Regency A (2nd Floor)

12:00pm CST

Lunch On Your Own Offsite Student & Professional Networking Luncheon (pre-registration required) Grand Ballroom (DEFGH)

1:00pm CST

Confluence Region Conservation Partnerhsip Sterling 6 (2nd Floor)J. Michael Checkett Conservation Philanthropy...it's not just about special events Mills 6 (4th Floor)Kevin Roper Lake and Reservoir Management Committee Meeting Mills 3 (4th Floor)Will Radigan

1:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Effects of Flow Variation on Recruitment in a Central Missouri Stream Fish Assemblage Regency D (2nd Floor)Connor Church Fisheries Track: Identifying Walleye and Lake Whitefish Spawning Habitat to Inform Habitat Improvements for Lake Sturgeon in the Lower Fox River below De Pere Dam Regency C (2nd Floor)Braden Lensing Wildlife Track: 'On The Road Again' Native Species Seeding By Midwestern DOTs and Potential Improvements Regency F (2nd Floor)Wesley Bollinger Wildlife Track: WITHDRAWN Sterling 3 (2nd Floor) S-01: Audubon’s bird conservation strategy on the Mississippi River Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Dale Gentry S-02: WITHDRAWN Regency B (2nd Floor) S-03: CWD: Strengthening Public Involvement: Iowa’s Multifaceted Approach to CWD Outreach and Management Regency E (2nd Floor)Catherine Cummings S-04: Historical Perspectives on Trout Management in Missouri Grand A (4th Floor)Mike Kruse S-05: Fishers & Farmers Partnership: Energizing Healthy Farms & Fish Habitats Through Neighbor Connections Grand B (4th Floor)Ben Lubinski S-06: Prairie Reconstruction: Prairie Fork CA Case Study and Lessons Learned Grand C (4th Floor)Chris Newbold

2:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Diet and Niche Overlap of Blue Catfish and Resident Reservoir Sportfishes to Inform Stocking Decisions Regency D (2nd Floor)Jacob Bentley Fisheries Track: Identifying Spawning Sites and Fidelity of Ogaa (walleye Sander Vitreus): Implications for Fishery Stewardship Regency C (2nd Floor)Kayla Lenz Wildlife Track: Effects of Landscape Characteristics on Occurrence and Density of Native Bumblebee Species. Fort Riley. Kansas Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Cassidy Lathrom Wildlife Track: WITHDRAWN Regency F (2nd Floor) S-01: Bottomland Forest Birds along the Upper Mississippi River Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Tara Hohman S-02: Fish Freeways: How Rock Ramps are Assisting Prairie Stream Fish Movement Regency B (2nd Floor)Seth Callahan S-03: CWD: Identifying the Motivations and Barriers of Landowners to Participating in Targeted Removal to Manage Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Missouri Regency E (2nd Floor)Jason Isabelle S-04: Trout Streams of the Northern Ozarks: Overview of Missouri's Ribbon Areas Grand A (4th Floor)Blake Stephens S-05: Partnering with Private Landowners on Forest Management for Water Quality Grand B (4th Floor)Jennifer Wahls S-06: Woodland Management for Biodiversity at Shaw Nature Reserve Grand C (4th Floor)Calvin Maginel

2:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Evaluating the influence of climate change on walleye and largemouth bass consumption rates in a northern Wisconsin lake Regency C (2nd Floor)Jeston Hassler Fisheries Track: Zooplankton in the Upper Mississippi River System Regency D (2nd Floor)Molly Sobotka Wildlife Track: Monitoring tarantulas in Missouri glades: Conservation of a charismatic arachnid. Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Becky Hansis-O'Neill Wildlife Track: PHASE: Pollinator Habitat Aligned with Solar Energy Regency F (2nd Floor)Alison Little S-01: Breeding bird community in the Mississippi River floodplain forest: Two Decades of change Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Mike Wellik S-02: Beyond barriers: Fish communities in a recovering tributary of Lake Erie Regency B (2nd Floor)Matthew Acre S-03: CWD: Exploring Landowners’ Support for CWD Management in Illinois Regency E (2nd Floor)Eric Walberg S-04: The Meramec River Brown Trout Dilemma - a Case Study of a Missouri Ozark Stream's Salmonid Management Grand A (4th Floor)Jen Girondo S-05: The Power of Partnerships in Advancing Coldwater Conservation Grand B (4th Floor)Mike Siepker S-06:Monitoring the Ecological Response to Restoration Treatments in the Missouri Pine-Oak Woodlands Restoration Project of the Mark Twain National Forest Grand C (4th Floor)Elizabeth Yohe

2:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: First occurrence of American Brook Lamprey (Lethenteron appendix) in the Cuyahoga River, OH Regency D (2nd Floor)Zane McAdams Fisheries Track: Movement of Walleye and Sauger assessed using acoustic telemetry in Lewis and Clark Lake, a Missouri River reservoir Regency C (2nd Floor)Will Radigan Wildlife Track: Protecting Remnant Prairies and Grassland Reconstruction/Restoration Success Across Missouri. Regency F (2nd Floor)Jerod Huebner S-01: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Autonomous Recording Units for Detecting Upper Mississippi River Migratory Landbirds Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Nicole Michel S-02: Moxostoma Migratory Movements during Restoration Efforts in the Cuyahoga River, OH Regency B (2nd Floor)Sophia Bonjour S-03: CWD: Decoding CWD Testing Regency E (2nd Floor)Sherri Russell S-04: Bennett Spring State Fish Hatchery Renovations Grand A (4th Floor)Ben Havens S-05: Conservation Counts: Building Urban and Rural Partnerships to Address Stream Biological Impairments Grand B (4th Floor)Josh Balk S-06: Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades Grand C (4th Floor)Carolyn Stephen

3:00pm CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

3:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Environmental changes lead to reduced Walleye production in Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota Regency C (2nd Floor)Tom Jones Fisheries Track: Spatial and temporal resource use of the Upper Mississippi River Regency D (2nd Floor)Shaley Valentine Wildlife Track: Habitat Features and the Presence of Coyotes Cause the Greatest Shifts in Mammal Diel Activity Regency F (2nd Floor)Nathan Proudman Wildlife Track: The Role of Extralimital Exploration in Avian Range Expansion Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Wendy Dorman S-01: A framework to facilitate habitat conservation for marsh birds in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Michael Monfils S-02: Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It to? Retrofitting an Aging Urban Dam for Multiuse, Including Recreation and Fish Passage. Regency B (2nd Floor)Donald Pereira S-03: CWD: Where Have All the Deer gone? Regency E (2nd Floor)Tricia Fry S-04: Insights into the Missouri Winter Trout Program Grand A (4th Floor)John Schulte S-05: Growing Relationships for Increasing Wetland Practice Adoption to Improve Downstream Water Quality Grand B (4th Floor)Jill Kostel S-06: Burn with Care – Challenges and Considerations for Replicating Historic Fire in Missouri State Parks Grand C (4th Floor)Ron Colatskie

3:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Evaluating the distribution of fish community production in northern Wisconsin lakes with different walleye recruitment histories Regency C (2nd Floor)Maxwel Wilkinson Fisheries Track: Macroinvertebrate Assemblages Using Live Freshwater Mussels as Habitat Regency D (2nd Floor)Madison Dunlap Wildlife Track: Space use and habitat selection of a recolonized bobcat population Regency F (2nd Floor)Ellen Audia Wildlife Track: WITHDRAWN Sterling 3 (2nd Floor) S-01: Sora and Virginia Rail Migratory Timing and Stopover Duration in the Illinois River Valley Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Auriel Fournier S-02: Utilizing the USFWS National Fish Passage Coordination Map and the SARP National Aquatic Barrier Inventory and Prioritization Tool to Assess Stream Connectivity Across the Western Great Plains Regency B (2nd Floor)Jacob Zona S-03: CWD: CWD Hunter Harvest Initiative Regency E (2nd Floor)Deborah Hudman S-04: Evaluating Brown Trout strains stocked into Spring River, Arkansas Grand A (4th Floor)Joseph Kaiser S-05: Scars to Shiners. Iowa's Private-Public Partnership to Save the Endangered Topeka Shiner through Oxbow Restorations. Grand B (4th Floor)Brandon Iddings S-06: Native bee response to woodland and glade restoration on Missouri’s state parks Grand C (4th Floor)Ken McCarty

4:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Evaluation of otolith and eye lens chemistry for identifying stocked Walleye Regency C (2nd Floor)Joshua Fluur Fisheries Track: Spectaclecase Mussel Detection in the Upper Mississippi River Using eDNA Regency D (2nd Floor)Tariq Tajjioui Wildlife Track: Habitat Selection of Gray Foxes in Southern Illinois Regency F (2nd Floor)Nadine Pershyn Wildlife Track: Integrated dynamic occupancy models reveal declines in gamebird distributions in Illinois and sampling bias in eBird data Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Lauren Scopel S-01: Monitoring grassland bird populations in Missouri & beyond Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Dana Ripper S-02: Connecting Freshwater Resilience and Barrier Prioritization Regency B (2nd Floor)Mary Khoury S-03: CWD: Calculating the Cost of CWD: A Minnesota Approach Regency E (2nd Floor)Elizabeth Baker (Rasmussen) S-04: Evaluation of the Effects of a Slot Length Limit and Stocking Changes for Rainbow and Brown Trout in Lake Taneycomo, Missouri Grand A (4th Floor)Shane Bush S-05: Insights, Community Development, and Other Benefits of the Watershed Leaders Network Grand B (4th Floor)Beth Baranski S-06: Renovating Duck Creek CA: An Integrated Approach Grand C (4th Floor)Frank Nelson

4:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Addressing the Data Need to Manage Future Change in Fisheries Regency D (2nd Floor)Madalyn Siller Fisheries Track: Evaluating Data-limited Population Assessment Tools for Walleye Regency C (2nd Floor)Caleb Branam Wildlife Track: Using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System to fill knowledge gaps for priority Neotropical migratory birds in the Midwest and beyond Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Sarah Kendrick Wildlife Track: When, where, and how prey pair antipredator behaviors to natural and anthropogenic mortality risks Regency F (2nd Floor)Michael Egan S-01: An Assessment of Avian and Vegetation Communities on Agricultural Conservation Easement Wetlands in Eastern South Dakota Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Katherine Millman S-02: Facilitated Discussion - Developing an Aquatic Connectivity Team: An example from the Missouri Stream Connectivity Partnership. Regency B (2nd Floor)Eric Rahm S-03: CWD: Post-Season Targeted Removal Efforts are Worth the Work to Manage CWD Regency E (2nd Floor)Aaron Hildreth S-04: From Rod to Research and Resilience: How Anglers Enhance Fisheries Research and Management in Minnesota Waters of Lake Superior Grand A (4th Floor)Nick Peterson S-05: Engaging Private Landowners through Conservation Marketing Shoal Creek Woodlands for Wildlife Case-History Grand B (4th Floor)Rob Pulliam

4:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Assessing Habitat Quality Changes for Cool- and Warm-Water Fishes Regency D (2nd Floor)Madalyn Siller Wildlife Track: Creating a state-space model to assess the population status of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula) Regency F (2nd Floor)Justin Remmers Wildlife Track: Expansion of Motus in Missouri and the Midwest: examples of local and large scale Motus tracking Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Kristen Heath-Acre S-01: Owl and Nightjar Monitoring in Iowa Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Anna Buckardt Thomas S-03: CWD: Facilitated Discussion Regency E (2nd Floor) S-04: Community ecology in a bottle: Leveraging eDNA metabarcoding data to predict occupancy of co-occurring salmonids and gill lice ectoparasites Grand A (4th Floor)Sasha Tetzlaff S-05: The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Aquatic Life Monitoring Project in the Illinois River and Kaskaskia River basins, Illinois Grand B (4th Floor)Sarah Molinaro

5:00pm CST

S-05: The Nature Conservancy at Dog Tooth Bend Grand B (4th Floor)Tharran Hobson Invasive Species Technical Committee Information and Interest Meeting Sterling 6 (2nd Floor)Hannah Mulligan • Logan Zebro

6:00pm CST

Offsite Dinner and Social ($) - Sponsored by Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation Anheuser-Busch Brewery

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by PayIt Grand Foyer (4th Floor) Speaker Ready Room Open Mills 4 (4th Floor) Conference Registration Desk Open Grand Coatroom (4th Floor)

8:00am CST

Plenary Session 2 and Awards Grand Ballroom (DEFGH)Rob Hunt • Roger Still

10:05am CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

10:15am CST

MAFWA R3 and Relevancy Working Committee Annual Meeting Regency A (2nd Floor)

10:20am CST

Fisheries Track: Apples and Oranges? Using radio and acoustic telemetry to evaluate restoration success. Regency D (2nd Floor)Seth Fopma Fisheries Track: Determination and Comparison of Morphometrics and Meristics Used to Identify River and Shorthead Redhorse Regency C (2nd Floor)Devon Oliver Wildlife Track: Influence of Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Abundance on Prevalence of Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) in Northern Illinois Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Ashley McDonald Wildlife Track: Response of White-tailed Deer Movement to Exurban Mountain Bike Trails Regency F (2nd Floor)Tadao Kishimoto S-04: Salmonid diets in Minnesota streams with waterfalls, nuisance algae, and extreme hydrology Grand A (4th Floor)Heidi Rantala S-07:Cooperative Inter-Agency Management of Invasive Carps in the United States Regency E (2nd Floor)Rob Simmonds S-08: Welcome to the MidwestPARC Symposium Grand B (4th Floor)Melissa Youngquist S-09: Welcome, overview of the MAFWA CSS/HD group Mills 3 (4th Floor) S-10: Shifting Perspectives: The Role of Aquatic Plants in the Future of Fisheries and Angling Regency B (2nd Floor)Steven Bardin S-11: Evaluating the Slenderwrist Burrowing Crayfish, Fallicambarus petilicarpus, for Endangered Species Act listing Grand C (4th Floor)Caitlin Bloomer S-12: Not Just Ducks...Reframing Wetland Conservation Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Frank Nelson Initial Meeting: Bottomland Forests for Birds Manual (Invitation Only) Mills 6 (4th Floor)Tara Hohman

10:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Enhancing the science of age estimation: the creation of fishage.org Regency D (2nd Floor)Mark Pegg Fisheries Track: Using GPS and Side Scan Sonar Data to Track Yearly Electrofishing Path Variation and Fish Community Assemblages Regency C (2nd Floor)Drew Holloway Wildlife Track: Temporal Dynamics and Potential Niche Separation Amongst Carnivores: A Decadal Analysis Regency F (2nd Floor)Max Larreur Wildlife Track: The power of bats: evaluating protected bats during energy project planning Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Brittany Schweiger S-04: Evaluating Lake-Run Brown Trout in Saginaw Bay Using Acoustic Telemetry Grand A (4th Floor)April Simmons S-07: Developing a framework to inform early detection efforts of the next carp invasion in the Missouri River Basin Regency E (2nd Floor)Brielle Thompson S-08: Conservation of Missouri’s State Endangered Amphibian and Reptile Species Grand B (4th Floor)Jeff Briggler S-09: Engaging Non-traditional Audiences Through Relevancy Messaging (Formal Title: AFWA Relevancy Communication Toolkit Update) Mills 3 (4th Floor)Hiroto Hayashi S-10: Aquatic Vegetation Management Challenges and Opportunities Regency B (2nd Floor)Nate Long S-11: Insights from Multi-locus DNA Sequence Data into Species Boundaries within Hobbseus Crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) Grand C (4th Floor)Patrick Allison Jr. S-12: Tribal Wisdom on Nibi and Wetlands; Manoomin and the Circle of Life Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Kathleen Smith

11:00am CST

Fisheries Track: A Wide Net: Identifying Habitat Across Species and Age Groups of Fish for a Holistic View of the Ecosystem Regency D (2nd Floor)Kayla Lenz Fisheries Track: Big River Bluegill: How and why bluegill population dynamics vary along a large river gradient Regency C (2nd Floor)Kristen Bouska Wildlife Track: Bobcat Survival Across North America: A Meta-Analysis Approach Regency F (2nd Floor)Katherine Buckman Wildlife Track: Widespread pesticide exposure and plant damage in natural areas in Illinois Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )T.J. Benson S-04: Salmonid Movement and Habitat Use in Warming North Shore Tributaries to Lake Superior Grand A (4th Floor)Dylan Undlin S-07: Assessing Variation in Habitat Quality to Inform Preventative Management of Invasive Species Regency E (2nd Floor)Brenden Elwer S-08: Conservation Initiatives of the Saint Louis Zoo's Herpetology Department Grand B (4th Floor)Justin Elden S-09: Improving Dialogues in Multi-stakeholder Settings: an Experiment Mills 3 (4th Floor)Kristin Hurst S-10: Fisheries Response to Lake Restoration Projects in Northwest Iowa Natural Lakes Regency B (2nd Floor)Michael Hawkins S-11: Conservation and Taxonomic Status of the Spiny Scale Crayfish, with an emphasis on Kentucky Populations Grand C (4th Floor)Zachary Loughman

11:20am CST

Fisheries Track: Long-Term Angling for Black Bass During the Spawning Season Reduces Nest Defense and Responsiveness to Lures Regency D (2nd Floor)Justin Lombardo Fisheries Track: Microplastic Abundance in Fish Species with Differing Feeding Habits in a Large Midwestern River Regency C (2nd Floor)Michael Louison Wildlife Track: Impact of invasive Burmese python on the abundance of two endemic endangered species in the Florida Keys Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Shauna Sayers Wildlife Track: Rodents in an Urban Forest: Exploring Small Mammal Ecology and the Impact of Restoration  Regency F (2nd Floor)Samantha Dennis S-04: Assessment of Invasive and Nuisance species in a Nebraska Reservoir Managed as a Trout Fishery Grand A (4th Floor)Alexandria Keiler-Klein S-07:The Commercial Bait Dealer Program in Kansas: Aquatic Invasive Species Regulations and Inspections Regency E (2nd Floor)Michael Parr S-08: The Return of Alligator Snapping Turtles to Their Former Range in Kansas Grand B (4th Floor)Daren Riedle S-09: WITHDRAWN Mills 3 (4th Floor) S-10: Why I'm establishing aquatic plants, and you should too! Regency B (2nd Floor)Nick Kramer S-11: From streams, swamps, sloughs and roadside ditches: The places you will go while sampling the rare crayfishes of Texas, USA. Grand C (4th Floor)Dusty Swedberg

11:30am CST

S-12: Return of the Wapato Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Tracy Hames

11:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Flow and temperature impacts on catfish populations in two Missouri River tributaries Regency D (2nd Floor)BJ Schall Fisheries Track: Thermal Tolerances and Heat Shock Protein Regulation of Bigmouth Shiners Regency C (2nd Floor)Ella Humphrey Wildlife Track: Movement ecology of an urban community in Forest Park, Saint Louis Regency F (2nd Floor)Stephen Blake S-04: Assessment of Isotope Shifts in Northern Pike in Response to Increased Rainbow Trout Stocking Length Grand A (4th Floor)Jeremy Kientz S-07: Improving the Discoverability and Accessibility of Invasive Carp Projects and Data Regency E (2nd Floor)Jason Ross S-08: Adaptive Management for a Reintroduced Population of Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) Grand B (4th Floor)Callie Klatt Golba S-09: Summarizing grassland management social science literature and conservation practitioner social science needs across the Central Grasslands Mills 3 (4th Floor)Ashley Gramza S-10: Aquatic Plant Assessment and Mapping Methods: Finding the sweet spot between frequency and abundance Regency B (2nd Floor)Ray Valley

12:00pm CST

Lunch On Your Own Offsite

1:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Age and Growth Analyses on a Stunted vs. Non-Stunted Population of White Perch in Southeastern Nebraska Reservoirs Regency D (2nd Floor)Cali Engel Fisheries Track: Impacts of Habitat Enhancement on Fish Assemblage Integrity in Several Midwestern Streams Regency C (2nd Floor)Ryan Skowronski Wildlife Track: Multi-Method Occupancy of Semi-Aquatic Mammals in Southern Illinois Regency F (2nd Floor)Derek Whipkey Wildlife Track: Quantifying the biodiversity benefit of forest cover in agricultural landscapes using environmental DNA metabarcoding Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Olivia Reves S-04: Advancing Cold Water Beyond Trout: Characterizing Aquatic Biota and Habitat Across Thermal Gradients in Missouri Grand A (4th Floor)Natalie Coash S-07: What could adaptive management of invasive bigheaded carp in the Tennessee and Cumberland river subbasins look like? Regency E (2nd Floor)Michael Colvin S-08: A PVA to Support Conservation Planning for Blanding’s Turtles in Iowa Grand B (4th Floor)Elizabeth Lang S-09: Pragmatic Applications of Creel Surveys Mills 3 (4th Floor)Susan Steffen S-10: Testing the Waters: A Foray Into Floating Wetlands Regency B (2nd Floor)Kara Tvedt S-11: Shelter Preferences of Cambarus robustus, a Surrogate Study for the Federally Threatened Cambarus callainus Grand C (4th Floor)Hannah Holbert S-12: Wiski/Oski (River Cane): A Keystone Species in the Floodplain and in Chickasaw Culture Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Kent Sanmann

1:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Response of Fish Communities to Backwater Restoration in the Upper Mississippi River Regency C (2nd Floor)Hannah Lenning Fisheries Track: Smallmouth Bass Demographics in the Kaskaskia and Vermilion Rivers Regency D (2nd Floor)Ethan Scott Wildlife Track: An assessment of small mammal monitoring methods within restored prairies in Illinois Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Bianca Saftoiu Wildlife Track: Inter-specific differences in waterfowl responses to hunting pressure and environmental conditions at an autumn stopover Regency F (2nd Floor)Abigail Blake-Bradshaw S-04: Heritage Brook Trout program in southeast Minnesota Grand A (4th Floor)Doug Dieterman S-07: Evaluating Invasive Carp Management on the Illinois Waterway Through Adaptive ‘Multi-Agency Monitoring’ Regency E (2nd Floor)Michael Spear S-08: Effects of Prescribed Fire and Mowing on Smooth Greensnake Detection and Nesting Activity Grand B (4th Floor)Allison Sacerdote-Velat S-09: Species Preferences on Angler Motivational Factors in Kansas Mills 3 (4th Floor)Sarah Ulrichsen S-10: From Past Failures to Future Successes: Efforts to Establish Aquatic Vegetation in Arkansas Reservoirs. Regency B (2nd Floor)Jeremy Risley S-11: Status survey for Banded Mudbug (Lacunicambarus freudensteini) and Lonesome Gravedigger (Lacunicambarus mobilensis) in Southeastern Mississippi Grand C (4th Floor)Calvin Rezac

1:50pm CST

S-12: Osage Culinary Traditions and Food Sovereignty Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Veronica Pipestem

2:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Characterizing Riverine Habitat through the Use of UAS and Side-Scan Sonar Regency C (2nd Floor)Tyler Hessler Fisheries Track: Exploring Assessment Techniques for Minnesota's Newest Sport Fish: the Burbot Regency D (2nd Floor)Kristen Patterson Wildlife Track: Surfing the Blue Wave: Is blue-winged teal resource selection influenced by fine-scale variation in wetland availability? Regency F (2nd Floor)Jeffrey Edwards Wildlife Track: Use of thermal-imaging drones to assess assumptions of density estimation techniques Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )David Delaney S-04: Brook Trout Management in the Iowa Driftless Region Grand A (4th Floor)Mike Siepker S-07: Exploring tools to evaluate invasive carp management success across different density gradients and river systems Regency E (2nd Floor)Jim Lamer S-08: Factors that Influence Capture and Size at Capture of Common Gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis) and Dekay’s Brownsnakes (Storeia dekayi) in Northern Indiana Grand B (4th Floor)Nicholas Sekits S-09: Who Fishes in Indiana: Population Segments as Management Tools Mills 3 (4th Floor)Josef Hrabowski S-10: Lake DeGray Vegetation Re-Establishment Project – Vegetation Mapping Regency B (2nd Floor)Scott Jones S-11: First Comprehensive Habitat Survey of the Upper Guyandotte River and Pinnacle Creek for an Endangered Crayfish (Cambarus veteranus). Grand C (4th Floor)Montana Fonner

2:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Built to Last? Evaluating the Condition of Fish Habitat Structures in Missouri’s Ozark Reservoirs Regency C (2nd Floor)Tyler Ham Fisheries Track: Recruitment of Channel Catfish stocked as advanced fingerlings and yearlings in Ohio reservoirs Regency D (2nd Floor)Stephen Tyszko Wildlife Track: Wetland Management and Habitat Associations of Breeding Secretive Marsh Birds, including King Rail, in Missouri Regency F (2nd Floor)Ryan McGinty S-04: Assessment of Coldwater Fisheries Resources in Northeast Iowa. Grand A (4th Floor)Greg Gelwicks S-07: Invasive Carp Growth Chronologies: Management Tool To Help Evaluate Harvest Success? Regency E (2nd Floor)Kaiden Vinavich S-08: Discovering Landscape Connectivity Patterns of Wood Turtles in Northern Michigan Grand B (4th Floor)Autumn Straessle S-09: Quantifying angler harvest decisions using four decades of creel survey data Mills 3 (4th Floor)Ben Neely S-10: Aquatic Vegetation Survey Methods in Iowa Regency B (2nd Floor)Jason Euchner S-11: Evaluation of Eye Stalk Microchemistry as a Potential Indicator of Crayfish Environmental History Grand C (4th Floor)Cameron Haeffner S-12: Reconstructing wetland garden productivity and resilience at Cahokia, Illinois (900-1350 AD) Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Natalie Mueller

2:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Assessment of Channel Catfish Population Demographics in Illinois Impoundments and Evaluation of Spawning Boxes Regency D (2nd Floor)Danielle Shubat Fisheries Track: Trends in Population Status and Range-Wide Geographic Patterns of Genetic Variation for the Federally Petitioned Bluestripe Darter Regency C (2nd Floor)Brittany Harried Wildlife Track: River-Floodplain Connectivity: Effects on Ecological Communities in Restored Wetlands along the Lower Missouri River Regency F (2nd Floor)Josh Williams S-04: Brook Trout Restoration in Iowa using Multi-Pass Electrofishing to Removal Nonnatives Grand A (4th Floor)Caleb Schnitzler S-07: Invasive Carp Removals in Missouri River Tributaries Regency E (2nd Floor)Adam McDaniel S-08: Herpetofauna use of canebrake habitat in southern Illinois Grand B (4th Floor)Thanchira Suriyamongkol S-10: Point Intercept Sampling for Aquatic Macrophytes in Northern Michigan Inland Lakes Regency B (2nd Floor)Jeremy Hartsock S-11: Clawing for Survival: Mapping Invasive and Endemic Crayfishes in the Upper Saint Francis River Basin Grand C (4th Floor)Anna Raney S-12: Native Landscapes: Engaging and Empowering Community Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Cydney Ross

3:00pm CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

3:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Identifying potential sources of natural recruitment of muskellunge in Green Bay, Lake Michigan Regency D (2nd Floor)Ryan Eastman Fisheries Track: Linking Stream Fish Thermal Ecology and Adaptive Capacity to Prioritize Watershed Areas with Greatest Value for Conservation Regency C (2nd Floor)Brittany Harried S-07: Invasive Carp Removal Approaches in the Missouri River Basin Regency E (2nd Floor)Jessica Howell S-08: Resurveying the Amphibians and Reptiles of Chicagoland Forest Preserves Grand B (4th Floor)Madelynn Sinclair S-09: Anonymous Location Data Integrated with Intercept Surveys: A Powerful Combined Approach to Measuring Lake Recreation Mills 3 (4th Floor)Rebecca Krogman S-10: Ohio’s invasive Hydrilla response: case studies and lessons learned Regency B (2nd Floor)Curtis Wagner S-12: Growing native edible plants for food and wildlife in farms and gardens. Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Nadia Navarrete-Tindall

3:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Examining stunted Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) population in River Reservoir Regency D (2nd Floor)Kaden Ball Fisheries Track: Navigating the Currents: Investigating Environmental Cues for Pallid Sturgeon Immigration and Emigration for a Missouri River Tributary Regency C (2nd Floor)Jenna Ruoss S-07: Monitoring Invasive Bigheaded Carp Movement Across Sub-basins in Response to Removal Efforts Regency E (2nd Floor)Josh Abner S-08: Ecology of an Urban Population of Common Snapping Turtles in Indiana Grand B (4th Floor)Jean-Baptiste Johnson S-09: Using resource size-use models to predict how climate cycles influence angler effort Mills 3 (4th Floor)Matthew Maldonado S-10: Employing Recreational Side-Scan Sonar to Evaluate the Relationship between Aquatic Vegetation and Sportfish Catch Rates across Ohio Reservoirs Regency B (2nd Floor)Gus McAnally

3:50pm CST

S-12: Ducks Plus: Cultivating Sustainable Landscapes with Partners Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Mark Flaspohler

4:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Applications of Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Fish Biodiversity Assessments of Missouri Ozark Stream and Mississippi River Lowland Habitats Regency D (2nd Floor)David Duvernell Fisheries Track: Dispersal of Juvenile Lake Sturgeon Stocked in the Saginaw River Basin Regency C (2nd Floor)Maxwell Majinska S-07: Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, roll in developing and maintaining invasive carp removal programs through the commercial fishing industry Regency E (2nd Floor)Joshua Tompkins S-08: Temporal variation in occupancy dynamics of ringed (Ambystoma annulatum) and marbled (A. opacum) salamanders in Missouri Grand B (4th Floor)Tom Anderson S-09: Planning for our public: results from Wisconsin's 2023 mixed-methods recreation study Mills 3 (4th Floor)Matteo Cleary S-10: In the Weeds: The Role of Aquatic Macrophytes in Predicting the Success of Walleye Recruitment in Minnesota and Wisconsin Regency B (2nd Floor)Robert Davis

4:10pm CST

S-12: Incorporating Ecological Design for Production and Resilience: A Case Study in the Lower Missouri River Floodplain Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Zack Miller

4:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Benefits and pitfalls of using time-lapse-photography to collect urban angler information Regency D (2nd Floor)Lewis Bruce Fisheries Track: Reproductive Characteristics of a Vulnerable Riverine Specialist in the Unchannelized Missouri River Regency C (2nd Floor)BJ Schall S-07: Copious Copi: Using Incentives and Marketing to Control Bigheaded Carps Regency E (2nd Floor)James Garvey S-08: Weather weirding and frog phenology: how some species may adapt to climate change Grand B (4th Floor)Melissa Youngquist S-09: Producer's views on conservation programs in the Rainwater Basin region of Nebraska Mills 3 (4th Floor)Natalia Hagen S-10: Public and Professional Perspectives on Aquatic Plant Management and Research Regency B (2nd Floor)Zach Feiner

4:30pm CST

S-12: Not Just for Ducks: Facilitated Discussion Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)

4:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Lessons and advice on the development of a mobile-entry platform Regency D (2nd Floor)Keith Hurley Fisheries Track: Native Rough Fish Management Progress in Minnesota Regency C (2nd Floor)Shannon Fisher S-07: Use of Invasive Species to Address Food Security Regency E (2nd Floor)Mark Morgan S-08: Population genetics of the crawfish frog (Rana areolata) in Oklahoma support a single taxon with little genetic differentiation Grand B (4th Floor)Neil Balchan S-09: Discussion: Social Science Needs and Priorities Mills 3 (4th Floor)

5:00pm CST

Michigan State University Fisheries and Wildlife Alumni and Friends Social Regency Foyer (2nd Floor) Midwest Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Feral Swine Committee Mills 6 (4th Floor)Alan Leary

6:00pm CST

Poster Session & Tradeshow Social - Co-Sponsored by Aquatic Control, HDR Engineering & NASA Grand Ballroom (4th Floor) P-01: Efficacy of Trapping Programs to Control Raccoon Populations Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jennifer Schultze P-02: Zoonotic disease and diet surveys of raccoons (Procyon lotor) across urban-rural gradients in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri. Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Yonah Bennett P-03: Exploring Variation in Immune Physiology and Movement in White-Tailed Deer Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Holly Redmond P-04: Impacts of Targeted Removals on White-tailed Deer Behavior Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kristine Cotten P-05: Analysis of Trap Design Characteristics of Fisher Monitoring Stations Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Erik Holterman P-06: Effect of Prairie Dog Burrow Density on Intensity of Ticks on Small Mammals in South Dakota Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Zack Wilson P-07: Using Camera Traps to Explore Coyote Presence Across an Urbanization Gradient in St. Louis Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jake Meyer P-08: Examining the Intraspecies and Interspecies Communication Between Canid Species in Central Wisconsin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Adrienne Cohoon P-09: Survey of mammal biodiversity in a midwestern urban natural area using trail cameras: a collaboration between Missouri Western State University (MWSU) and Snapshot USA (2022-2024) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Cary Chevalier P-100: The Use and Integration of Omic Technologies as Tools to Help Connect to Higher Levels of Biological Organization Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jason Magnuson P-101: The Recent Use and Registration Status of Antimycin-A for Native Fish Restorations Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Gavin Saari P-102: Precision of Four Calcified Structures for Age Estimation of Black Carp Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Anne Herndon P-103: Accounting for Positional and Classification Errors in Side-Scan Sonar Imagery Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jason Fischer P-10: Predicting habitat suitability for endangered Indiana bats using niche-based distribution modeling Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Elizabeth Biro P-11: Bat Communities along an Urbanization Gradient in St. Louis, MO Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Elizabeth Biro P-12: Comparing Pre and Post White-nose Syndrome Distributions of Three Bat Species in Eastern Nebraska Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Daniel Peacock P-13: Exploring Fecal and Environmental DNA Detection of Bat Species of Greatest Conservation Need via Nanopore Adaptive Sampling Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Thomas Raad P-14: Tracking Black-crowned Night-herons Across Chicagoland Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Sarah Slayton P-15: Optimizing Density Estimation Methods Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Eastern-Whip-poor-wills (Antrostromus vociferus) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Haley Holiman P-16: WITHDRAWN Grand Ballroom (4th Floor) P-17: Nestling fecal metabarcoding provides insights into the diet and habitat quality of a declining grassland passerine Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Joshua Angell P-18: Long-term Dynamics of Seasonal Tree Phenology and Forest Songbird Populations Across the Central Hardwoods (Preliminary Findings) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Benjamin Tjepkes P-19: Is there a shift in Migration Timing of Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus)? Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ruby Valadez P-20: Assessing Bird-Window Strike Collisions: Patterns of Avian Mortality and Mitigation Strategies at Ball State University Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ashley Fitch P-21: Role of acorns in Red-headed Woodpecker overwintering in northeastern Illinois Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Adrianna Yoder P-22: Investigating Wild Turkey Poult and Hen Diets Across Kansas: Landscape Influences on Arthropod and Plant Diversity Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Cy Marchese P-23: Functional Connectivity of Blanding’s Turtle Habitat in Central Michigan Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Mirabai Moseley P-24: Spatial Ecology of Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) on Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, Northwest Missouri Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Grace Allen P-25: Demographics of Two Spotted Turtle Populations in Clark County, Ohio Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Neil Boyles P-26: Assessment of Spotted Turtle Populations in Southwestern Ohio Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Shayne Harris P-27: Metapopulation Dynamics of Urban Turtles: Why Did the Turtle Leave Campus? Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Mark Mills P-28: Spatial and temporal patterns in Galapagos giant tortoise nesting activity Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Emily Donovan P-29: The Incubation Duration of Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Nests Located on Cape Lookout National Shoreline Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Claire Sullivan P-30: Indirect Monitoring of Burmese Python (Python Bivittatus) Populations Through Cause-Specific Mortality of Virginia Opossums (Didelphis Virginiana) In Key Largo, Florida, USA Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Arya Sanjar P-31: On The Overwintering Temperatures Of Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) in East-Central Missouri And The Influence Of Substrate And Shaded Air Temperature On Emergence, Egress, And Ingress Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ben Jellen P-32: Herpetofauna and Tarantula Avoidance: A Missouri Glades Location Survey Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Zach Pfeiffer P-33: St. Louis Wildlife Project Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Elizabeth Biro P-34: Testing for Tick-borne Disease Pathogens in the Lone Star Tick in St. Louis Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Whitney Anthonysamy P-35: Measuring welfare of wild tarantulas during field surveys using heart rate. Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Tim Lopez P-36: Conservation Status Assessments and Surveys of Cambarus monongalensis and Lacunicambarus thomai Within Western Pennsylvania Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jaden Rusnak P-37: A Survey of Crayfishes of the Upper Cumberland & Kentucky River Watersheds in Southeastern Kentucky Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kaleb Norris P-38: Effects of Environmental Variables on Crayfish Occupancy in Shallow Eutrophic Lakes and Wetlands Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Dalton Clayton P-39: Freshwater Mussel Diversity and Restoration in Cub Creek, Nebraska Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Alexis Oetterer P-40: Integrating eDNA Techniques in Freshwater Biomonitoring of Fish and Macroinvertebrates Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Madison Suttman P-41: Quantifying Avian Predation Rates of the Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Randall Wilson P-42: Assessment of Fish Guilds in the Lower Wabash River Using Standardized Long-Term Monitoring Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Olivia Wertman P-43: Understanding our past and forecasting our future: discovering associations among hydrogeomorphology, water chemistry, and the distribution and abundance of biota in the Upper Mississippi River System Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Julia Hampton P-44: Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Aquatic Life Monitoring in the Illinois River and Kaskaskia River Basins Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Billy Nixon P-45: A Comparison of Gear Efficacy for Sampling Fishes Occupying Near-Shore, Off-Channel Riverine Habitats Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Devon Oliver P-46: Planning for Resiliency: Identifying Aquatic Conservation Priorities Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Josh Bruegge P-47: Fishing for recovery: Assessing stream fish and macroinvertebrate community response post-fertilizer spill into an Illinois creek. Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Shaley Klumker P-48: Life History of Skipjack Herring in the Mississippi River Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Theodore Goetz P-49: Thermal Ecology of Salmonids in Northern Japan: Predicting Co-existence Among Competitors in a Warming World Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Lucas Fischer P-50: Spatial Extent of Fish Community Change in an Indiana Stream Following Reconnection to the Mississippi River Basin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Alexander Searfoss P-51: Assessing Differences in Reproductive Potential in Two Shovelnose Sturgeon Populations Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Lydia Flinders P-52: From the cradle: genetic diversity of the central Missouri endemic Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Leah Berkman P-53: Distributional Survey of the Fishes of the Lower St. Francis River Watershed Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)David Ostendorf P-54: Assessing Fish Passage Barriers in Wyoming and Montana Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Stephanie Webster P-55: Investigating the sublethal responses of Smallmouth Bass to environmentally relevant concentrations of PFOS Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Erin Pulster P-56: Evidence of skin pigment mutations in Blue Catfish and their importance to a Midwestern fishery Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Brett Miller P-57: Assessment of Habitat Suitability in Maumee and Sandusky Rivers for Sauger (Sander canadensis) Reintroduction Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Elizabeth Anderson P-58: Stock-Contribution Comparisons for Walleye Over Time in Lake McConaughy, Nebraska Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Robert Allison P-59: Assessing Ogaa Mortality and Angling Practices in a Changing Climate Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Mac McPherson P-60: Diet composition and overlap of walleye and largemouth bass in northern Wisconsin lakes: implications for walleye recruitment and size structure of prey fish Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Daniel Dembkowski P-61: Building a case for holistic and conservative management of a genetically unique strain of Walleye in Southern Missouri Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Dave Knuth P-62: Growth and Mortality of Devils Lake White Bass Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Todd Caspers P-63: Where the lake whitefish are in the upper Great Lakes Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Gwendolyn Phillips P-64: How will growth of warm-water and cool-water fish change with warming climate? Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kaden Ball P-65: Big and Small, We Sample Them All: An Assessment of Missouri’s Flathead Catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) Fisheries to Guide Management and Sampling Efforts Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Robert Weber P-66: Examining Age-length Relationships across North Platte Channel Catfish (Ictalurus Punctatus) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Sarah Hayden P-67: Fishing in the gaps: minimum sample sizes for supplementing creel surveys with user-generated data Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Mackensie Shears P-68: Maintaining Trophy Potential of Riverine Smallmouth Bass Populations in the Menominee River Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Sam Embersits P-69: Evaluating Natural Recruitment of Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, and Black Crappie in Two Community Fishing Ponds in Southeastern South Dakota Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jason Uden P-70: Abundance and growth rates of Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) from Lake Michigan and connected tributary habitats Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Mallory Wagner P-71: Factors Affecting Detection Efficiencies of Acoustic Transmitters in a Large Midwestern Reservoir Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Hannah Thomas P-72: Sanding or Sectioning: how does otolith preparation method affect reader agreement? Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Amelia Finnell P-73: Temporal Replication of Assigned Ages for Silver Carp Otoliths Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Brendon Tran P-74: Evaluating Flood-Induced Habitat Connections Using Remotely Sensed Data Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Natalie Liberati P-75: Natal Origin and Movement of Invasive Carp in the Missouri River Basin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Hannah Mulligan P-76: Investigating Bigheaded Carp Migratory Behavior in a Large Lotic System Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Logan Zebro P-77: Temporal Occupancy of Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) within Tributaries of the Ohio River Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Patrick Padilla P-78: Community Sampling Gears Affect Silver Carp Density Estimates Derived from Hydroacoustic Surveys Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Garrett Johnson P-79: Spatial and Temporal Trends of Silver Carp Body Condition in the Ohio River Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Adam Musolf P-80: Tracking Movement and Habitat Utilization of Invasive Carp Within the Presence Front of the Ohio River Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Andrew Peters P-81: Evaluating Conspecific Feeding Sounds as an Attractant for Invasive Carp Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Adam McFall P-82: Genetic control of grass carp through RNA interference Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Chris Merkes P-83: Determining hybridization of bighead and silver carp by analyzing body shape with geometric morphometric techniques Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Alexandra Johnson P-84: Impacts of Spatiotemporal Variation of Hydrological Conditions on Native and Invasive Ichthyoplankton Communities in the Lower Wabash River Basin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Alexis Gerber P-85: Quantifying the Impacts of Invasive Carp through Monitoring Native, Planktivorous Gizzard Shad in the Open River Reach Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kamryn Wittkop P-86: How invasive carp removal affects fish community size spectra. Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Charles McDunn P-87: EcoPath with Ecosim: Application in the lower Mississippi River for Invasive Bighead and Silver Carp Management Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kassidy Frame P-88: Invasive Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and the impact on native fish communities throughout the Mississippi River basin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Justin Harms P-89: Effects of Embryonic Exposure to Predation Cues on Embryo and Larval Behavior in Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Abby Yake P-90: Density and community composition of aquatic invertebrates in interdunal wetland ponds at Ludington State Park, MI, USA Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Rowan Faust P-91: Comparisons of Zooplankton Communities Before and After Chemical Renovation in Lake Ogallala, Nebraska Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Theo Huber P-92: Angler use and satisfaction of South Dakota urban and community fisheries following supplemental stocking of adult Largemouth Bass and Hybrid Sunfish Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Aysah Dondlinger P-93: Fishy Business: How to Market the Outdoors Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Benjamin Poli P-94: Urban Wildlife Management success: Eleven years of Canada goose (Branta Canadensis) population management on Missouri Western State University campus. Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Cary Chevalier P-95: Subject Matter Focus of State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Magazines Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ashley Hrdina P-96: Development and Cloud Implementation of the New Annual National Land Cover Database for the United States Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jesslyn Brown P-97: Impact of L-Dopa on the growth and development of Brassica: Insights from velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) seed metabolomics Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Sonja Weber P-98: Velvet bean soil inclusions enhance tomatoes' growth, biomass, and photosynthetic assimilation efficiency Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Sonja Weber P-99: The Next Frontier: Development of a Lake Fish Biogeographical Model in the Canadian Shield, Minnesota Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jessica Massure

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors Grand Foyer (4th Floor) Conference Registration Desk Open Grand Coatroom (4th Floor)

8:00am CST

Fisheries Track: Conserving "native rough fish" through fisheries management in the Midwest Regency C (2nd Floor)Steve Herrington Fisheries Track: Population Characteristics of Buffalo in Wisconsin: Contribution and Resiliency to Bowfishing Harvest Regency B (2nd Floor)Daniel Isermann S-07: Aggregation for Eradication: An Exploratory Grass Carp Management Strategy in the Upper Mississippi River Regency E (2nd Floor)Max Monfort S-08: Crawfish Frog Conservation in the Midwest Grand B (4th Floor)Nate Engbrecht S-11: Molecular Surveillance of a Potential Signal Crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) Invasion in the Midwest United States Grand C (4th Floor)Eric Larson S-13: wdnr.fmdb – A case study of living data in Wisconsin DNR’s Fisheries Management Program Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Paul Frater S-14: Managing for Resilient Walleye Populations: Avoiding an Ecological Tipping Point Regency A (2nd Floor)Greg Sass S-15: An Overview of the Sustainable Rivers Program Grand A (4th Floor)Heidi Mehl S-16: Migratory Birds and Climate Change: Symposium Opening Remarks Regency D (2nd Floor)Douglas Gorby S-17: The Public’s Perceived Importance and View of Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies Regency F (2nd Floor)Lisa Parks S-19: Midwest Landscape Initiative and the Midwest Conservation Blueprint Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Rachael Carlberg S-18: FishCAST: Introducing the North Central Division Fisheries Community Advocacy and Sustainability Team Mills 3 (4th Floor)Brittany Harried

8:20am CST

Fisheries Track: Evaluating Lake Sturgeon Spawning Site Use and the Relative Contribution of Spawning Tributaries to Harvest in the Lake Winnebago System Regency C (2nd Floor)Sam Embersits Fisheries Track: Looking Towards the Future: Individual Identification Tag Exploration on Bigmouth Shiners for use on Small-bodied At-risk Fish in Nebraska Regency B (2nd Floor)Joe Spooner S-07: Fisheries dependent and independent data inform a capture technique for an emerging invasive fish species in the mainstem Mississippi River; Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus Regency E (2nd Floor)Patrick Kroboth S-08: The Status of the Crawfish Frog, Lithobates areolatus, in Kansas Grand B (4th Floor)Daren Riedle S-11: Development of Point-of-Use Detection Tools for Prevention and Control of Red Swamp Crayfish Grand C (4th Floor)Caden Jungbluth S-13: Harmful Algal Blooms, Leveraging Remotely Sensed Data for Timely Decisions and Long-term Understanding Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Nicholas Sievert S-14: How RAD are Walleye Fisheries at the Southern End of their Range? Regency A (2nd Floor)Melissa Wuellner S-15: Modifying Water Velocities to Promote Lake Sturgeon Spawning Success on the Mississippi River Grand A (4th Floor)Sarah Peper S-16: Climate Science in Service of Migratory Bird Management Regency D (2nd Floor)Olivia Ledee S-17: Is It Working? An Evaluation of a State's R3 Programs Regency F (2nd Floor)Cindy Longmire, PhD S-19: The Five Land Languages: How Differing Perceptions of Place Constrain Conservation Delivery, and What We Can Do About It Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Karl Malcolm

8:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Assessing Age and Incremental Growth Rates in Cedar River Shovelnose Sturgeon through an 18-year Mark-Recapture Dataset Regency C (2nd Floor)Juliana Kaloczi Fisheries Track: Taxonomic and Functional Shifts in Riverine Fish Community Assemblages Across Midwest National Parks Regency B (2nd Floor)Lily Thompson S-07: Development and Assessment of Novel Tools and Techniques for Capture, Deterrence, and Monitoring of Invasive Carp Regency E (2nd Floor)Jesse Fischer S-08: Evaluating the Status of Crawfish Frogs (Rana areolata) in Oklahoma through Frog Call Surveys and Species Distribution Models Grand B (4th Floor)Kaleb Banks S-11: Red Swamp Crayfish Home Range and Movement in an Invaded Lentic Ecosystem Grand C (4th Floor)William Ota S-13: Integrating Long-term Assessment Data to Evaluate Muskellunge Stocking across Wisconsin Inland Lakes Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Alexander Latzka S-14: Understanding and building resilience in Green Bay walleye populations Regency A (2nd Floor)Daniel Dembkowski S-15: Lake Sturgeon Response to Modified Flows on the Salt River Grand A (4th Floor)Annie Hentschke S-16: Microclimates and Species Life History Differences Inform Climate Vulnerability in a Grassland Songbird Community Regency D (2nd Floor)Benjamin Zuckerberg S-17: Attracting Diverse Participants to School Shooting Sports Programs (Formal Project Title: Youth Shooting Sports Diversity and Engagement) Regency F (2nd Floor)Hiroto Hayashi S-19: Promoting Habitat: Engage, connect, empower and instill an ownership. People protect what they value Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )

9:00am CST

Fisheries Track: If at First You Don’t Succeed: The Evolution of Capture Methods in Great Lakes Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) Control Regency B (2nd Floor)Robert Mapes Fisheries Track: Molecular Sexing of Lake Sturgeon Allows for Determination of Sex Ratios and Sex-Specific Growth Rates in the St. Clair – Detroit River System Regency C (2nd Floor)Andrew Briggs S-07: A New and Innovative Method for Invasive Carp Ichthyoplankton Dispersal Control and Monitoring in Open-River Conditions Regency E (2nd Floor)Ryan Jackson S-08: Current status and future directions for Crawfish Frog conservation in Arkansas Grand B (4th Floor)Amanda Bryant S-11: Habitat Selectivity by Invasive Red Swamp Crayfish Grand C (4th Floor)Sarah Walker S-13: A Long-Term Study of the Impacts of Patch-Burn Grazing with Cattle as a Prairie Management Tool on Remnant Tallgrass Prairie in Missouri Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Tom Thompson S-14: The Recovery of Saginaw Bay Walleye, a Case Study in Resiliency Regency A (2nd Floor)David Fielder S-15: Assessing the effects of experimental flow releases on Shovelnose Sturgeon spawning in the Des Moines River, Iowa Grand A (4th Floor)McKensie Vaske S-16: Joint Venture Decision Support Tools: Brainstorming Ideas to Account for Climate Change Regency D (2nd Floor)Mohammed Al-Saffar S-17: Attracting New Adult Hunters with Tested Messages and Ideal Media (Formal Project Title: New Hunter Ads for Target Audience) Regency F (2nd Floor)Hiroto Hayashi S-18: Overview of DEIJA and Indigenous relations in AFS Mills 3 (4th Floor)Jory Jonas S-19: Missouri Habitat Strike Teams: Partnering for Collaborative Landscape Conservation Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Megan Buchanan

9:20am CST

Fisheries Track: Alternative Data Sources Predict (Dis)similar Connectivity Networks Among Minnesota Lakes Regency B (2nd Floor)Aaron Muehler Fisheries Track: WITHDRAWN Regency C (2nd Floor) S-07: Effectiveness of an invasive carp underwater acoustic deterrent system at Mississippi River Lock 19 Regency E (2nd Floor)Janice Albers S-08: Status of the Crawfish Frog (Lithobates areolatus) in Missouri Grand B (4th Floor)Jeff Briggler S-11: Influence of Environmental Characteristics on Procambarus clarkii Burrowing in Southeast Michigan Golf Course Waterbodies Grand C (4th Floor)Colin Assenmacher S-13: Incorporating Long-term Fisheries Data to Understand Fish Recruitment in a Dynamic Ecosystem Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Andrew Foley S-14: Managing Sustainable Walleye Harvest on Lake Erie Regency A (2nd Floor)Travis Hartman S-15: Shovelnose Sturgeon Summer Habitat Selection on the Des Moines River, Iowa Grand A (4th Floor)Daniel Paulson S-16: Predicted Migratory Landbird Response to Climate Change in Texas and Louisiana Regency D (2nd Floor)T.J. Zenzal S-17: Harnessing the Growth in 35–44-Year-Old Participation Regency F (2nd Floor)Lisa Parks S-18: A History of STEM and DEIA: Challenges, Trailblazers, and What the Future Holds Mills 3 (4th Floor)Gweniviere Oubre S-19: Collaborative Conservation for the Next Generation Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Rachael Carlberg

9:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Tracking the Spread of Invasive Mollusks in the Illinois River Watershed Regency B (2nd Floor)Nicholas Iacaruso Fisheries Track: Using Eye Lenses to Identify Rearing Origin of Large, Fingerling Walleye Regency C (2nd Floor)BJ Schall S-07: Deterring Upstream Movement of Invasive Carp in the Kansas River Regency E (2nd Floor)Liam Odell S-08:A Brief History and Status Update of the Northern Crawfish Frog in Iowa Grand B (4th Floor)Paul Frese S-13: Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project: Adapting to change Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Shelby Timm S-14: Using angler derived data to assess walleye fisheries and resilience Regency A (2nd Floor)Jeff Kopaska S-15: Movement of Pectoral Sandpipers from an Iowa stopover site Grand A (4th Floor)Victoria Fasbender S-16: Navigating Change: Creating Resilient Urban Landscapes for Migratory Birds Regency D (2nd Floor)Abigail Derby Lewis S-17: WAFWA Hunter Personas and Evolutionary Path Regency F (2nd Floor)Lisa Parks S-18: A Systems Approach to DEI Planning at a State Agency Mills 3 (4th Floor)Jory Jonas

10:15am CST

Time and Place DeBrief Meeting (For host team representatives from Missouri (2025) and Indiana (2026) Mills 6 (4th Floor)

10:20am CST

Fisheries Track: Assessing Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) Abundance Dynamics in Tailwater Habitats Using Side-scan Sonar Techniques Regency B (2nd Floor)Adam Jones Fisheries Track: History of Fish Production and Design in North America Regency C (2nd Floor)Matt Cochran S-07: Assessment of Sampling Gears for Adult Invasive Carp in Mid-Order Rivers in Nebraska Regency E (2nd Floor)Brett Anderson S-08: Status of the Crawfish Frog (Lithobates areolatus) in Illinois Grand B (4th Floor)Scott Ballard S-11: Habitat Associations of Invasive Rusty Crayfish and Native Virile Crayfish in a Shallow, Eutrophic Natural Lake Grand C (4th Floor)Dalton Clayton S-14: 40 Years of Walleye Observations in Pool 14 of the Upper Miss. River Regency A (2nd Floor)Jeremiah Haas S-15: USACE Mobile - Improving Fish Passage, Mussel Habitat, and Fish Spawning Habitat Through Modification of Federal Reservoir Operations Grand A (4th Floor)Terry Rickey S-17: Exploring R3 Opportunities in Midwestern State Parks Regency F (2nd Floor)Lisa Parks S-18: Survey Says: We are not meeting the needs of students and ECPs within the NCD Mills 3 (4th Floor)Shaley Valentine S-19: A Partner-Focused Path Forward To Conserve Grasslands and Midwest Communities Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Alex Wright S-16: Moderated Panel Discussion Regency D (2nd Floor)Mohammed Al-Saffar

10:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Bioprogramming: A Tool to Help Guide Hatchery Design into the Modern Era Regency C (2nd Floor)Baylee Thornton Fisheries Track: Evaluating juvenile Grass Carp behavioral responses to sound Regency B (2nd Floor)Christina Mackey S-07: Silver Carp Biomass Estimation Using Low-Cost Consumer-Grade Technology to Inform Management Strategies Regency E (2nd Floor)Josey Ridgway S-08: An Update on the Status and Conservation of Crawfish Frogs (Lithobates areolatus) in Indiana Grand B (4th Floor)Nate Engbrecht S-11: Stress levels of P. Clarkii and F. Rusticus differ along the Chicago River Grand C (4th Floor)John Bieber S-14: Lake Pepin - Perspectives from 60 Years of Annual Monitoring Regency A (2nd Floor)Nick Schlesser S-15: Native Freshwater Mussels in the Allegheny River: Science to Support the Sustainable Rivers Program Grand A (4th Floor)Teresa Newton S-17: Insights from the Offal Wildlife Watching Project: Engaging the Hunting Community to Advance Understanding and Conservation of Scavenger Species at Hunter-Provided Gut Piles Regency F (2nd Floor)Grace Milanowski S-18: Moderated Panel Discussion for FishCAST Symposium Mills 3 (4th Floor)Brittany Harried S-19: Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act: An Underutilized Tool for Conservation Planning Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Rebecca Sloan

11:00am CST

Fisheries Track: Using Side-Scan Sonar and N-Mixture Models to Estimate the Abundance of Invasive Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) in the Lamine River, MO Regency B (2nd Floor)Cade Roach Fisheries Track: Variation in Fatty Acid Composition of Channel Catfish and Blue Catfish in Two Central Ohio Reservoirs Regency C (2nd Floor)Steven Gratz S-07: Missouri River Tributary Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) Population Assessment Regency E (2nd Floor)Kellie Hanser S-08: Multiple lines of evidence reveal interspecific hybridization between the Crawfish Frog (Rana areolata) and two sympatric congeners Grand B (4th Floor)Owen Edwards S-11: Parasite-Induced Trophic Cascade via Trait-Mediated Effects on Invasive Crayfish Grand C (4th Floor)Cheyenne Stratton S-14: Devils Lake Walleye: History and Factors Impacting Sustainability. Regency A (2nd Floor)Todd Caspers S-15: Environmental Pool Management on Corps Pools and Reservoirs: A Clear Case for Ecological Benefits Grand A (4th Floor)Lane Richter S-17: Attracting Participants to LearnHunting.org (Formal Project Title: LearnHunting.org Pilot State Marketing) Regency F (2nd Floor)Hiroto Hayashi S-19: Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape – Making Connectivity Progress in a Fragmented Landscape Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Michael Spalding

11:20am CST

Fisheries Track: Enhancing proactive aquatic nuisance species management by developing a standardized risk screening workflow Regency B (2nd Floor)Lindsey LaBrie Fisheries Track: Influence of Thermal Variation on Paddlefish Thermal Tolerance, Recovery and Post-Release Behavior Regency C (2nd Floor)Shasta Kamara S-07: Length-based stock assessments for grass carp in Lake Erie Regency E (2nd Floor)Tammy Wilson S-08: Future headstarting plans for Indiana’s endangered Crawfish frogs Grand B (4th Floor)Blake Klocke S-14: Factors affecting year-class strength of Walleye (Sander vitreus) populations in western irrigation reservoirs Regency A (2nd Floor)Steve Chipps S-15: Sustainable Rivers Program E-Flow and E-Pool Efforts on the Kansas and Osage Rivers Grand A (4th Floor)Marvin Boyer S-17: U.S. and Midwestern Hunting and Fishing Participation Trends via R3 Dashboard Regency F (2nd Floor)Lisa Parks S-19: Development and Implementation of Missouri's Landscape Health Index Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Jon Podoliak

11:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Spatial and Temporal Variation of Invasive Carp Spawning Activity in the Illinois River Basin Regency B (2nd Floor)Braden Whisler Fisheries Track: Understanding fecal microbiome of Pallid Sturgeon Regency C (2nd Floor)Israt Jahan S-07: Limited Catch: The Use of Supplementary Biological Data To Further Develop Our Understanding Of Lake Erie Grass Carp Regency E (2nd Floor)Dillon Weik S-08: Management of crawfish frogs (Lithobates areolatus) based on breeding pond manipulation, head starting, and disease implications at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern I Grand B (4th Floor)Joseph Robb S-14: Seeing (bright) spots: Factors related to unexpected walleye success Regency A (2nd Floor)Christopher Rounds S-15: Where Do We Go From Here? - Advancing the Sustainable Rivers Program to New Rivers and Opportunities in the Midwest Grand A (4th Floor)Brian Johnson S-17: Quality Programs Deserve Qualitative Methods Regency F (2nd Floor)Amy Bousman S-19: Planning for Pollinators: How Voluntary Conservation Agreements Can Encourage Landscape-Scale Conservation Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Catherine O’Reilly