2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

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1:40pm CST

Wildlife Track: 'On The Road Again' Native Species Seeding By Midwestern DOTs and Potential Improvements TBAWesley Bollinger Wildlife Track: Low population densities of Missouri brown tarantulas (Aphonopelma hentzi) in Missouri glades. TBABecky Hansis-O'Neill

2:00pm CST

Wildlife Track: Effects of Landscape Characteristics on Occurrence and Density of Native Bumblebee Species. Fort Riley. Kansas TBACassidy Lathrom Wildlife Track: Mastering the Flames: An overview of prescribed burning training for students and early career professionals TBACraig Maier

2:20pm CST

Wildlife Track: PHASE: Pollinator Habitat Aligned with Solar Energy TBAAlison Little Wildlife Track: The relationship between butterfly diversity and canopy cover management across 25 years in Midwestern oak savannas TBAJoseph Deas

2:40pm CST

Wildlife Track: Monitoring tarantulas in Missouri glades: Conservation of a charismatic arachnid. TBABecky Hansis-O'Neill Wildlife Track: Protecting Remnant Prairies and Grassland Reconstruction/Restoration Success Across Missouri. TBAJerod Huebner

3:20pm CST

Wildlife Track: Habitat Features and the Presence of Coyotes Cause the Greatest Shifts in Mammal Diel Activity TBANathan Proudman Wildlife Track: The Role of Extralimital Exploration in Avian Range Expansion TBAWendy Dorman

3:40pm CST

Wildlife Track: Investigating the effects of habitat on the distribution and abundance of Chuck-will’s-widows (Antrostomus carolinensis) in central Texas, their diet across space and time, and insect availability... TBASonia Tomczyk Wildlife Track: Space use and habitat selection of a recolonized bobcat population TBAEllen Audia

4:00pm CST

Wildlife Track: Habitat Selection of Gray Foxes in Southern Illinois TBANadine Pershyn Wildlife Track: Integrated dynamic occupancy models reveal declines in gamebird distributions in Illinois and sampling bias in eBird data TBALauren Scopel

4:20pm CST

Wildlife Track: Using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System to fill knowledge gaps for priority Neotropical migratory birds in the Midwest and beyond TBASarah Kendrick Wildlife Track: When, where, and how prey pair antipredator behaviors to natural and anthropogenic mortality risks TBAMichael Egan

4:40pm CST

Wildlife Track: Creating a state-space model to assess the population status of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula) TBAJustin Remmers Wildlife Track: Expansion of Motus in Missouri and the Midwest: examples of local and large scale Motus tracking TBAKristen Heath-Acre