2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

Eric Rahm

Missouri Department of Conservation

Stream Biologist

12:00pm CST

Speaker Ready Room Open Mills 4 (4th Floor)

6:00pm CST

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

7:00am CST

Speaker Ready Room Open Mills 4 (4th Floor) Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by St. Louis Zoo WildCare Institute Grand Foyer & Parkview Room (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 & Parkview Room (4th Floor)

10:30am CST

North Central Division AFS Business Meeting Grand A (4th Floor)Daniel Isermann

12:00pm CST

Student & Professional Networking Luncheon (pre-registration required) Grand Ballroom (DEFGH)

1:40pm CST

S-02: WITHDRAWN Regency B (2nd Floor)

2:00pm CST

S-02: Fish Freeways: How Rock Ramps are Assisting Prairie Stream Fish Movement Regency B (2nd Floor)Seth Callahan

2:20pm CST

S-02: Beyond barriers: Fish communities in a recovering tributary of Lake Erie Regency B (2nd Floor)Matthew Acre

2:40pm CST

S-02: Moxostoma Migratory Movements during Restoration Efforts in the Cuyahoga River, OH Regency B (2nd Floor)Sophia Bonjour

3:00pm CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer & Parkview Room (4th Floor)

3:20pm CST

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

3:40pm CST

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

4:00pm CST

S-02: Connecting Freshwater Resilience and Barrier Prioritization Regency B (2nd Floor)Mary Khoury

4:20pm CST

S-02: Facilitated Discussion - Developing an Aquatic Connectivity Team: An example from the Missouri Stream Connectivity Partnership. Regency B (2nd Floor)Eric Rahm

6:00pm CST

SOLD OUT! 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 & Parkview Room (4th Floor)

8:00am CST

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

10:20am CST

S-12: Not Just Ducks...Reframing Wetland Conservation Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Frank Nelson

11:00am CST

S-07: Assessing Variation in Habitat Quality to Inform Preventative Management of Invasive Species Regency E (2nd Floor)Brenden Elwer 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

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

12:00pm CST

Lunch On Your Own Offsite

1:20pm CST

S-10: Testing the Waters: A Foray Into Floating Wetlands Regency B (2nd Floor)Kara Tvedt

2:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Characterizing Riverine Habitat through the Use of UAS and Side-Scan Sonar Regency C (2nd Floor)Tyler Hessler

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

2:40pm CST

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 S-11: Clawing for Survival: Mapping Invasive and Endemic Crayfishes in the Upper Saint Francis River Basin Grand C (4th Floor)Anna Raney

3:20pm CST

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

6:00pm CST

Poster Session & Tradeshow Social - Co-Sponsored by Aquatic Control, HDR Engineering & NASA Grand Ballroom (4th Floor) P-37: A Survey of Crayfishes of the Upper Cumberland & Kentucky River Watersheds in Southeastern Kentucky Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kaleb Norris P-39: Freshwater Mussel Diversity and Restoration in Cub Creek, Nebraska Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Alexis Oetterer 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-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-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-95: Subject Matter Focus of State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Magazines Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ashley Hrdina

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors Grand Foyer & Parkview Room (4th Floor)