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W-02: Promoting Resilient Fish and Wildlife Populations through Disease Investigations 9:00am - 5:00pm
W-05: Guerilla-Style, Know-Nothing Software Development Using ChatGPT 9:00am - 12:00pm
W-03: Traditional Age Structured Fish Population Modeling and Simulation 9:00am - 5:00pm
W-04: An Overview of Structured Decision Making for Natural Resources 9:00am - 12:00pm
W-01: Introduction to Map Making in R 9:00am - 5:00pm
Benefits Declaration Workshop (Invitation Only) 9:00am - 5:00pm
Speaker Ready Room Open 12:00pm - 5:00pm
W-07: Public Land and Natural Resource Policy in North America 1:00pm - 5:00pm
W-08: Wildlife Capture Techniques 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Exhibitor Set-up 1:00pm - 6:00pm
W-06: Playing with Privilege: Unpacking Privilege & Power in the Outdoors 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Salmonid Technical Committee Winter Business Meeting 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Joint Winter Business Meeting of the Centrarchid, Esocid, and Walleye Technical Committees 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Student Icebreaker Meet & Greet 5:00pm - 6:00pm
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Conference Registration Desk Open 7:00am - 6:00pm
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Speaker Ready Room Open 7:00am - 5:00pm
Continental Breakast with Exhibitors 7:00am - 8:30am
Plenary Session 1 8:00am - 10:05am
Coffee Break 10:05am - 10:30am
Annual Membership Meeting – North Central Section of The Wildlife Society 10:30am - 12:00pm
North Central Division AFS Business Meeting 10:30am - 12:00pm
Lunch On Your Own 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Student & Professional Networking Luncheon (pre-registration required) 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Conservation philanthropy...it's not just about special events 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Lake and Reservoir Management Committee Meeting 1:00pm - 5:00pm
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S-03: CWD: Strengt...
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S-04: Historical P...
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S-02: Climbing the...
S-06: Prairie Reco...
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S-01: Audubon’s bi...
S-01: Bottomland F...
S-02: Fish Freeway...
S-04: Trout Stream...
S-05: Partnering w...
Wildlife Track: Ma...
Wildlife Track: Ef...
Fisheries Track: D...
S-03: CWD: Identif...
S-06: Woodland Man...
S-06:Monitoring th...
S-03: CWD: Explori...
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S-02: Beyond barri...
S-05: The Power of...
Fisheries Track: Z...
S-01: Breeding bir...
Wildlife Track: Th...
S-04: The Meramec...
S-02: Moxostoma Mi...
S-01: Evaluating t...
S-06: Fire effects...
S-03: CWD: Decodin...
Wildlife Track: Pr...
S-05: Conservation...
Wildlife Track: Mo...
Fisheries Track: F...
S-04: Bennett Spri...
Fisheries Track: M...
Coffee Break
S-02: Can We Have...
S-04: Insights int...
S-05: Growing Rela...
S-03: CWD: Where H...
S-06: Burn with Ca...
S-01: A framework...
Wildlife Track: Ha...
Fisheries Track: S...
Wildlife Track: In...
S-02: Utilizing th...
S-01: Sora and Vir...
S-03: CWD: CWD Hun...
S-04: Evaluating B...
S-06: Native bee r...
Wildlife Track: Sp...
S-05: Scars to Shi...
S-02: Connecting F...
S-05: Insights, Co...
S-01: Monitoring g...
S-04: Evaluation o...
S-06: Renovating D...
S-03: CWD: Calcula...
S-04: From Rod to...
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S-01: An Assessmen...
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S-01: Owl and Nigh...
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S-05: The Conserva...
S-04: Community ec...
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Invasive Species Technical Committee Information and Interest Me... 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Michigan State University Fisheries and Wildlife Alumni and Friends Social 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Plenary Session 2 8:00am - 10:05am
S-12: Not Just Duc...
S-10: Shifting Per...
S-08: Welcome to t...
S-07:Cooperative I...
S-09: Welcome, ove...
S-11: Evaluating t...
S-04: Salmonid die...
Initial Meeting: Bottomland Forests for Birds Manual (Invitation Only) 10:20am - 12:00pm
Wildlife Track: Re...
S-12: Tribal Wisdom on Nibi and Wetlands; Manoomin an... 10:40am - 11:30am
S-09: Engaging Non...
S-04: Evaluating L...
Fisheries Track: U...
S-07: Developing a...
S-08: Conservation...
S-10: Aquatic Vege...
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S-11: Insights fro...
S-11: Conservation...
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S-04: Salmonid Mov...
S-09: Improving Di...
Fisheries Track: B...
Wildlife Track: Bo...
Wildlife Track: Wi...
S-10: Fisheries Re...
S-10: Why I'm esta...
Wildlife Track: Fo...
S-04: Assessment o...
Wildlife Track: Ro...
S-07:The Commercia...
S-08: The Return o...
S-11: From streams...
S-09: Bees, Butter...
Fisheries Track: L...
S-12: Return of the Wapato 11:30am - 12:00pm
S-08: Adaptive Man...
Fisheries Track: T...
S-10: Aquatic Plan...
Wildlife Track: Im...
S-07: Improving th...
S-09: Summarizing...
Lunch On Your Own 12:00pm - 1:20pm
CONCURRENT TECHNICAL SESSIONS & ORGANIZED SYMPOSIA 1:20pm - 5:00pm
S-07: What could a...
S-04: Advancing Co...
S-12: Wiski/Oski (River Cane): A... 1:20pm - 1:50pm
Wildlife Track: Mu...
Wildlife Track: Qu...
S-11: Assessing th...
S-09: Pragmatic Ap...
S-10: Testing the...
S-08: A PVA to Sup...
S-11: Shelter Pref...
S-07: Evaluating I...
S-10: From Past Fa...
S-04: Heritage Bro...
Wildlife Track: As...
Fisheries Track: R...
S-08: Effects of P...
S-09: Species Pref...
S-12: Osage Culinary Traditions... 1:50pm - 2:20pm
S-09: Who Fishes i...
Fisheries Track: C...
S-07: Exploring to...
Wildlife Track: An...
S-04: Brook Trout...
S-08: Factors that...
Wildlife Track: Su...
S-10: Lake DeGray...
S-11: Status surve...
S-07: Invasive Car...
S-09: Quantifying...
Wildlife Track: We...
S-08: Discovering...
S-11: Species Dist...
S-12: Reconstructi...
Wildlife Track: Ri...
S-08: Herpetofauna...
S-10: Point Interc...
S-12: Native Lands...
S-08: Resurveying...
S-12: Growing nati...
S-11: First Compre...
S-09: Anonymous Lo...
S-10: Ohio’s invas...
S-11: Preliminary...
S-08: Ecology of a...
Fisheries Track: N...
S-07: Monitoring I...
S-10: Reservoir Ha...
S-09: Using resour...
S-12: Ducks Plus:...
S-11: Evaluation o...
S-08: Temporal var...
S-10: Employing Re...
S-07: Kentucky Dep...
S-09: Planning for...
S-12: Incorporatin...
S-09: Producer's v...
S-10: In the Weeds...
S-08: Weather weir...
S-07: Copious Copi...
S-11: Clawing for...
S-12: Not Just for Ducks: Facili... 4:30pm - 5:00pm
S-07: Use of Invas...
S-10: Public and P...
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S-09: Discussion:...
P-61: Building a case for holistic and conservative management of a genetically unique strain of Walleye in Southern Missouri 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-99: The Next Frontier: Development of a Lake Fish Biogeographical Model in the Canadian Shield, Minnesota 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-83: Determining hybridization of bighead and silver carp by analyzing body shape with geometric morphometric techniques 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-07: Using Camera Traps to Explore Coyote Presence Across an Urbanization Gradient in St. Louis 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-41: Quantifying Avian Predation Rates of the Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-06: Effect of Prairie Dog Burrow Density on Intensity of Ticks on Small Mammals in South Dakota 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-51: Assessing Differences in Reproductive Potential in Two Shovelnose Sturgeon Populations 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-54: Assessing Fish Passage Barriers in Wyoming and Montana 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-73: Temporal Replication of Assigned Ages for Silver Carp Otoliths 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-22: Investigating Wild Turkey Poult and Hen Diets Across Kansas: Landscape Influences on Arthropod and Plant Diversity 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-15: Optimizing Density Estimation Methods Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Eastern-Whip-poor-wills (Antrostromus vociferu... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-88: Invasive Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and the impact on native fish communities throughout the Mississippi Ri... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-32: Herpetofauna and Tarantula Avoidance: A Missouri Glades Location Survey 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-17: Nestling fecal metabarcoding provides insights into the diet and habitat quality of a declining grassland passerine 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-18: Long-term Dynamics of Seasonal Tree Phenology and Forest Songbird Populations Across the Central Hardwoods (Preliminary Fi... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-25: Demographics of Two Spotted Turtle Populations in Clark County, Ohio 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-28: Spatial and temporal patterns in Galapagos giant tortoise nesting activity 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-11: Bat Communities along an Urbanization Gradient in St. Louis, MO 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-50: Spatial Extent of Fish Community Change in an Indiana Stream Following Reconnection to the Mississippi River Basin 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-27: Metapopulation Dynamics of Urban Turtles: Why Did the Turtle Leave Campus? 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-86: How invasive carp removal affects fish community size spectra. 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-44: Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Aquatic Life Monitoring in the Illinois River and Kaskaskia River Basins 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-37: A Survey of Crayfishes of the Upper Cumberland & Kentucky River Watersheds in Southeastern Kentucky 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-96: Development and Cloud Implementation of the New Annual National Land Cover Database for the United States 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-04: Impacts of Targeted Removals on White-tailed Deer Behavior 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-58: Stock-Contribution Comparisons for Walleye Over Time in Lake McConaughy, Nebraska 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-63: Where the lake whitefish are in the upper Great Lakes 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-14: Tracking Black-crowned Night-herons Across Chicagoland 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-02: Zoonotic disease and diet surveys of raccoons (Procyon lotor) across urban-rural gradients in St. Louis and Kansas City, M... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-01: Efficacy of Trapping Programs to Control Raccoon Populations 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-78: Community Sampling Gears Affect Silver Carp Density Estimates Derived from Hydroacoustic Surveys 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-21: Role of acorns in Red-headed Woodpecker overwintering in northeastern Illinois 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-68: Maintaining Trophy Potential of Riverine Smallmouth Bass Populations in the Menominee River 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-31: On The Overwintering Temperatures Of Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) in East-Central Missouri And The Influen... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-45: A Comparison of Gear Efficacy for Sampling Fishes Occupying Near-Shore, Off-Channel Riverine Habitats 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-64: How will growth of warm-water and cool-water fish change with warming climate? 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-60: Diet composition and overlap of walleye and largemouth bass in northern Wisconsin lakes: implications for walleye recruitm... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-77: Temporal Occupancy of Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) within Tributaries of the Ohio River 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-57: Assessment of Habitat Suitability in Maumee and Sandusky Rivers for Sauger (Sander canadensis) Reintroduction 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-49: Thermal Ecology of Salmonids in Northern Japan: Predicting Co-existence Among Competitors in a Warming World 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-13: Exploring Fecal and Environmental DNA Detection of Bat Species of Greatest Conservation Need via Nanopore Adaptive Samplin... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-75: Natal Origin and Movement of Invasive Carp in the Missouri River Basin 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-29: The Incubation Duration of Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Nests Located on Cape Lookout National Shoreline 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-42: Assessment of Fish Guilds in the Lower Wabash River Using Standardized Long-Term Monitoring 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-46: Planning for Resiliency: Identifying Aquatic Conservation Priorities 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-05: Analysis of Trap Design Characteristics of Fisher Monitoring Stations 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-59: Assessing Ogaa Mortality and Angling Practices in a Changing Climate 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Poster Session & Tradeshow Social 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-03: Exploring Variation in Immune Physiology and Movement in White-Tailed Deer 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-56: Evidence of skin pigment mutations in Blue Catfish and their importance to a Midwestern fishery 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-76: Investigating Bigheaded Carp Migratory Behavior in a Large Lotic System 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-53: Distributional Survey of the Fishes of the Lower St. Francis River Watershed 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-72: Sanding or Sectioning: how does otolith preparation method affect reader agreement? 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-87: EcoPath with Ecosim: Application in the lower Mississippi River for Invasive Bighead and Silver Carp Management 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-39: Freshwater Mussel Diversity and Restoration in Cub Creek, Nebraska 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-66: Examining Age-length Relationships across North Platte Channel Catfish (Ictalurus Punctatus) 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-81: Evaluating Conspecific Feeding Sounds as an Attractant for Invasive Carp 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-09: Survey of mammal biodiversity in a midwestern urban natural area using trail cameras: a collaboration between Missouri Wes... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-97: Impact of L-Dopa on the growth and development of Brassica: Insights from velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) seed metabolomics 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-47: Fishing for recovery: Assessing stream fish and macroinvertebrate community response post-fertilizer spill into an Illinoi... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-20: Assessing Bird-Window Strike Collisions: Patterns of Avian Mortality and Mitigation Strategies at Ball State University 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-12: Comparing Pre and Post White-nose Syndrome Distributions of Three Bat Species in Eastern Nebraska 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-10: Predicting habitat suitability for endangered Indiana bats using niche-based distribution modeling 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-24: Spatial Ecology of Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) on Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, Northwest Missouri 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-33: St. Louis Wildlife Project 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-65: Big and Small, We Sample Them All: An Assessment of Missouri’s Flathead Catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) Fisheries to Guide M... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-26: Assessment of Spotted Turtle Populations in Southwestern Ohio 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-74: Evaluating Flood-Induced Habitat Connections Using Remotely Sensed Data 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-82: Genetic control of grass carp through RNA interference 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-95: Subject Matter Focus of State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Magazines 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-34: Testing for Tick-borne Disease Pathogens in the Lone Star Tick in St. Louis 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-92: Angler use and satisfaction of South Dakota urban and community fisheries following supplemental stocking of adult Largemo... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-23: Functional Connectivity of Blanding’s Turtle Habitat in Central Michigan 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-30: Indirect Monitoring of Burmese Python (Python Bivittatus) Populations Through Cause-Specific Mortality of Virginia Opossum... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-48: Life History of Skipjack Herring in the Mississippi River 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-67: Population Demographics of Three Major Catfish Species on the Wabash River 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-98: Velvet bean soil inclusions enhance tomatoes' growth, biomass, and photosynthetic assimilation efficiency 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-93: Fishy Business: How to Market the Outdoors 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-16: Activity patterns of Eastern Whip-poor-wills across different Midwestern forest management regimes 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-55: Investigating the sublethal responses of Smallmouth Bass to environmentally relevant concentrations of PFOS 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-38: Effects of Environmental Variables on Crayfish Occupancy in Shallow Eutrophic Lakes and Wetlands 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-35: Measuring welfare of wild tarantulas during field surveys using heart rate. 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-43: Understanding our past and forecasting our future: discovering associations among hydrogeomorphology, water chemistry, and... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-90: Density and community composition of aquatic invertebrates in interdunal wetland ponds at Ludington State Park, MI, USA 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-84: Impacts of Spatiotemporal Variation of Hydrological Conditions on Native and Invasive Ichthyoplankton Communities in the L... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-94: Urban Wildlife Management success: Eleven years of Canada goose (Branta Canadensis) population management on Missouri West... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-52: From the cradle: genetic diversity of the central Missouri endemic Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae) 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-85: Quantifying the Impacts of Invasive Carp through Monitoring Native, Planktivorous Gizzard Shad in the Open River Reach 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-62: Growth and Mortality of Devils Lake White Bass 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-71: Factors Affecting Detection Efficiencies of Acoustic Transmitters in a Large Midwestern Reservoir 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-70: Abundance and growth rates of Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) from Lake Michigan and connected tributary habitats 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-80: Tracking Movement and Habitat Utilization of Invasive Carp Within the Presence Front of the Ohio River 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-08: Examining the Intraspecies and Interspecies Communication Between Canid Species in Central Wisconsin 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-40: Integrating eDNA Techniques in Freshwater Biomonitoring of Fish and Macroinvertebrates 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-91: Comparisons of Zooplankton Communities Before and After Chemical Renovation in Lake Ogallala, Nebraska 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-36: Conservation Status Assessments and Surveys of Cambarus monongalensis and Lacunicambarus thomai Within Western Pennsylvani... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-69: Evaluating Natural Recruitment of Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, and Black Crappie in Two Community Fishing Ponds in Southeast... 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-89: Effects of Embryonic Exposure to Predation Cues on Embryo and Larval Behavior in Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-19: Is there a shift in Migration Timing of Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus)? 6:00pm - 8:00pm
P-79: Spatial and Temporal Trends of Silver Carp Body Condition in the Ohio River 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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CONCURRENT TECHNICAL SESSIONS & ORGANIZED SYMPOSIA 8:00am - 12:00pm
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Time and Place DeBrief Meeting (For host team representatives from Missouri (2025) and Indiana (2026) 10:15am - 12:00pm
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S-19: A Partner-Fo...
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S-14: 40 Years of...
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S-15: USACE Mobile...
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S-14: Lake Pepin -...
S-19: Section 10 o...
S-16: Translating...
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S-16: Moderated Panel Discussion 11:00am - 11:30am
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S-19: Southern Ind...
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