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 (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 (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)

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S-02: WITHDRAWN Regency B (2nd Floor)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

3:20pm 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

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)

8:00am CST

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

12:00pm CST

Lunch On Your Own Offsite

6:00pm CST

Poster Session & Tradeshow Social - Co-Sponsored by Aquatic Control, HDR Engineering & NASA Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors Grand Foyer (4th Floor)