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2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference
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Jordan Hofmeier
Kansas Dept. of Wildlife and Parks
Asst. Director of Ecological Services
Pratt, KS
ksoutdoors.com
Sunday
, January 19
9:00am CST
W-04: An Overview of Structured Decision Making for Natural Resources
TBA
6:00pm CST
Welcome Networking Social - Sponsored by USFWS
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
Monday
, January 20
7:00am CST
Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by St. Louis Zoo WildCare Institute
Grand Foyer (4th Floor)
8:00am CST
Plenary Session 1 and Awards
TBA
Ben Batten • Jim Inglis
10:05am CST
Coffee Break - Sponsored by Wildlife Management Institute
TBA
12:00pm CST
Lunch On Your Own
TBA
1:40pm CST
Fisheries Track: Effects of Flow Variation on Recruitment in a Central Missouri Stream Fish Assemblage
Regency D (2nd Floor)
Connor Church
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-05: The Power of Partnerships in Advancing Coldwater Conservation
Grand B (4th Floor)
Mike Siepker
3:00pm CST
Coffee Break
TBA
3:40pm CST
S-05: Scars to Shiners. Iowa's Private-Public Partnership to Save the Endangered Topeka Shiner through Oxbow Restorations.
Grand B (4th Floor)
Brandon Iddings
4:00pm CST
S-06: Renovating Duck Creek CA: An Integrated Approach
Grand C (4th Floor)
Frank Nelson
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
5:00pm CST
S-05: The Nature Conservancy at Dog Tooth Bend
Grand B (4th Floor)
Tharran Hobson
Tuesday
, January 21
7:00am CST
Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by PayIt
TBA
8:00am CST
Plenary Session 2 and Awards
TBA
Rob Hunt • Roger Still
10:05am CST
Coffee Break
TBA
10:20am CST
S-12: Not Just Ducks...Reframing Wetland Conservation
Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)
Frank Nelson
10:40am CST
S-08: Conservation of Missouri’s State Endangered Amphibian and Reptile Species
Grand B (4th Floor)
Jeff Briggler
11:00am CST
S-09: Improving Dialogues in Multi-stakeholder Settings: an Experiment
Mills 3 (4th Floor)
Kristin Hurst
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
1:20pm CST
S-10: Testing the Waters: A Foray Into Floating Wetlands
Regency B (2nd Floor)
Kara Tvedt
S-11: Shelter Preferences of Cambarus robustus, a Surrogate Study for the Federally Threatened Cambarus callainus
Grand C (4th Floor)
Hannah Holbert
1:40pm CST
S-11: Status survey for Banded Mudbug (Lacunicambarus freudensteini) and Lonesome Gravedigger (Lacunicambarus mobilensis) in Southeastern Mississippi
Grand C (4th Floor)
Calvin Rezac
2:00pm CST
S-11: First Comprehensive Habitat Survey of the Upper Guyandotte River and Pinnacle Creek for an Endangered Crayfish (Cambarus veteranus).
Grand C (4th Floor)
Montana Fonner
2:20pm CST
Wildlife Track: Wetland Management and Habitat Associations of Breeding Secretive Marsh Birds, including King Rail, in Missouri
Regency F (2nd Floor)
Ryan McGinty
2:40pm CST
Wildlife Track: River-Floodplain Connectivity: Effects on Ecological Communities in Restored Wetlands along the Lower Missouri River
Regency F (2nd Floor)
Josh Williams
3:00pm CST
Coffee Break
TBA
3:40pm CST
Fisheries Track: Navigating the Currents: Investigating Environmental Cues for Pallid Sturgeon Immigration and Emigration for a Missouri River Tributary
Regency C (2nd Floor)
Jenna Ruoss
3:50pm CST
S-12: Ducks Plus: Cultivating Sustainable Landscapes with Partners
Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)
Mark Flaspohler
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
4:20pm CST
S-08: Weather weirding and frog phenology: how some species may adapt to climate change
Grand B (4th Floor)
Melissa Youngquist
4:40pm CST
S-08: Population genetics of the crawfish frog (Rana areolata) in Oklahoma support a single taxon with little genetic differentiation
Grand B (4th Floor)
Neil Balchan
6:00pm CST
Poster Session & Tradeshow Social - C0-Sponsored by Aquatic Control, HDR Engineering & NASA
TBA
Wednesday
, January 22
7:00am CST
Continental Breakast with Exhibitors
TBA
8:00am CST
S-15: An Overview of the Sustainable Rivers Program
Grand A (4th Floor)
Heidi Mehl
8:20am CST
S-08: The Status of the Crawfish Frog, Lithobates areolatus, in Kansas
Grand B (4th Floor)
Daren Riedle
8:40am CST
S-08: Evaluating the Status of Crawfish Frogs (Rana areolata) in Oklahoma through Frog Call Surveys and Species Distribution Models
Grand B (4th Floor)
Kaleb Banks
9:00am CST
S-19: Missouri Habitat Strike Teams: Partnering for Collaborative Landscape Conservation
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Megan Buchanan
9:20am CST
S-08: Status of the Crawfish Frog (Lithobates areolatus) in Missouri
Grand B (4th Floor)
Jeff Briggler
9:40am CST
S-07: Deterring Upstream Movement of Invasive Carp in the Kansas River
Regency E (2nd Floor)
Liam Odell
10:20am CST
S-15: USACE Mobile - Improving Fish Passage, Mussel Habitat, and Fish Spawning Habitat Through Modification of Federal Reservoir Operations
Grand A (4th Floor)
Terry Rickey
10:40am CST
S-15: Native Freshwater Mussels in the Allegheny River: Science to Support the Sustainable Rivers Program
Grand A (4th Floor)
Teresa Newton
S-19: Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act: An Underutilized Tool for Conservation Planning
Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )
Rebecca Sloan
11:20am CST
S-15: Sustainable Rivers Program E-Flow and E-Pool Efforts on the Kansas and Osage Rivers
Grand A (4th Floor)
Marvin Boyer
11:40am CST
S-15: Where Do We Go From Here? - Advancing the Sustainable Rivers Program to New Rivers and Opportunities in the Midwest
Grand A (4th Floor)
Brian Johnson
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