2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

Geriann Albers

Indiana DNR

Furbearer and Turkey Program Leader

6:00pm CST

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

10:30am CST

Annual Membership Meeting – North Central Section of The Wildlife Society Grand C (4th Floor)Jeremy Holtz

3:20pm CST

Wildlife Track: Habitat Features and the Presence of Coyotes Cause the Greatest Shifts in Mammal Diel Activity Regency F (2nd Floor)Nathan Proudman S-03: CWD: Where Have All the Deer gone? Regency E (2nd Floor)Tricia Fry

3:40pm CST

Wildlife Track: Space use and habitat selection of a recolonized bobcat population Regency F (2nd Floor)Ellen Audia

4:00pm CST

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

4:20pm CST

Wildlife Track: When, where, and how prey pair antipredator behaviors to natural and anthropogenic mortality risks Regency F (2nd Floor)Michael 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) Regency F (2nd Floor)Justin Remmers 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

6:00pm CST

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

10:20am CST

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

10:40am CST

Wildlife Track: Temporal Dynamics and Potential Niche Separation Amongst Carnivores: A Decadal Analysis Regency F (2nd Floor)Max Larreur S-11: Insights from Multi-locus DNA Sequence Data into Species Boundaries within Hobbseus Crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) Grand C (4th Floor)Patrick Allison Jr.

11:00am CST

Wildlife Track: Bobcat Survival Across North America: A Meta-Analysis Approach Regency F (2nd Floor)Katherine Buckman

11:40am CST

Wildlife Track: Movement ecology of an urban community in Forest Park, Saint Louis Regency F (2nd Floor)Stephen Blake

1:20pm CST

Wildlife Track: Multi-Method Occupancy of Semi-Aquatic Mammals in Southern Illinois Regency F (2nd Floor)Derek Whipkey

2:00pm CST

Wildlife Track: Use of thermal-imaging drones to assess assumptions of density estimation techniques Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )David Delaney

2:20pm CST

S-09: Quantifying angler harvest decisions using four decades of creel survey data Mills 3 (4th Floor)Ben Neely

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

4:40pm CST

S-09: Discussion: Social Science Needs and Priorities Mills 3 (4th Floor)

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-05: Analysis of Trap Design Characteristics of Fisher Monitoring Stations Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Erik Holterman 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-22: Investigating Wild Turkey Poult and Hen Diets Across Kansas: Landscape Influences on Arthropod and Plant Diversity Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Cy Marchese P-33: St. Louis Wildlife Project Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Elizabeth Biro P-37: A Survey of Crayfishes of the Upper Cumberland & Kentucky River Watersheds in Southeastern Kentucky Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kaleb Norris P-68: Maintaining Trophy Potential of Riverine Smallmouth Bass Populations in the Menominee River Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Sam Embersits P-93: Fishy Business: How to Market the Outdoors Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Benjamin Poli P-96: Development and Cloud Implementation of the New Annual National Land Cover Database for the United States Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Jesslyn Brown

8:00am CST

S-17: The Public’s Perceived Importance and View of Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies Regency F (2nd Floor)Lisa Parks

8:20am CST

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

10:40am CST

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