2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

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Kristen Heath-Acre

Missouri Deparment of Conservation

State Ornithologist

8:00am CST

Plenary Session 1 and Awards Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ben Batten • Jim Inglis

12:00pm CST

Lunch On Your Own Offsite

1:40pm CST

Wildlife Track: 'On The Road Again' Native Species Seeding By Midwestern DOTs and Potential Improvements Regency F (2nd Floor)Wesley Bollinger S-01: Audubon’s bird conservation strategy on the Mississippi River Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Dale Gentry S-06: Prairie Reconstruction: Prairie Fork CA Case Study and Lessons Learned Grand C (4th Floor)Chris Newbold

2:00pm CST

S-01: Bottomland Forest Birds along the Upper Mississippi River Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Tara Hohman S-06: Woodland Management for Biodiversity at Shaw Nature Reserve Grand C (4th Floor)Calvin Maginel

2:20pm CST

S-01: Breeding bird community in the Mississippi River floodplain forest: Two Decades of change Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Mike Wellik S-02: Beyond barriers: Fish communities in a recovering tributary of Lake Erie Regency B (2nd Floor)Matthew Acre S-06:Monitoring the Ecological Response to Restoration Treatments in the Missouri Pine-Oak Woodlands Restoration Project of the Mark Twain National Forest Grand C (4th Floor)Elizabeth Yohe

2:40pm CST

S-01: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Autonomous Recording Units for Detecting Upper Mississippi River Migratory Landbirds Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Nicole Michel S-06: Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades Grand C (4th Floor)Carolyn Stephen

3:00pm CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

3:20pm CST

S-01: A framework to facilitate habitat conservation for marsh birds in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Michael Monfils

3:40pm CST

S-01: Sora and Virginia Rail Migratory Timing and Stopover Duration in the Illinois River Valley Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Auriel Fournier

4:00pm CST

S-01: Monitoring grassland bird populations in Missouri & beyond Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Dana Ripper

4:20pm CST

Wildlife Track: Using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System to fill knowledge gaps for priority Neotropical migratory birds in the Midwest and beyond Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Sarah Kendrick

4:40pm CST

Wildlife Track: Expansion of Motus in Missouri and the Midwest: examples of local and large scale Motus tracking Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Kristen Heath-Acre S-01: Owl and Nightjar Monitoring in Iowa Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Anna Buckardt Thomas

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

10:05am CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

10:20am CST

Initial Meeting: Bottomland Forests for Birds Manual (Invitation Only) Mills 6 (4th Floor)Tara Hohman S-12: Not Just Ducks...Reframing Wetland Conservation Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Frank Nelson

12:00pm CST

Lunch On Your Own Offsite

2:00pm CST

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

2:40pm CST

S-12: Native Landscapes: Engaging and Empowering Community Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Cydney Ross

3:00pm CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

3:20pm CST

S-12: Growing native edible plants for food and wildlife in farms and gardens. Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Nadia Navarrete-Tindall

3:50pm CST

S-12: Ducks Plus: Cultivating Sustainable Landscapes with Partners Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Mark Flaspohler

4:30pm CST

S-12: Not Just for Ducks: Facilitated Discussion Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)

4:40pm CST

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

6:00pm CST

P-06: Effect of Prairie Dog Burrow Density on Intensity of Ticks on Small Mammals in South Dakota Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Zack Wilson P-15: Optimizing Density Estimation Methods Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Eastern-Whip-poor-wills (Antrostromus vociferus) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Haley Holiman P-18: Long-term Dynamics of Seasonal Tree Phenology and Forest Songbird Populations Across the Central Hardwoods (Preliminary Findings) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Benjamin Tjepkes P-19: Is there a shift in Migration Timing of Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus)? Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ruby Valadez P-20: Assessing Bird-Window Strike Collisions: Patterns of Avian Mortality and Mitigation Strategies at Ball State University Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ashley Fitch P-21: Role of acorns in Red-headed Woodpecker overwintering in northeastern Illinois Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Adrianna Yoder P-41: Quantifying Avian Predation Rates of the Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Randall Wilson P-95: Subject Matter Focus of State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Magazines Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ashley Hrdina

8:00am CST

S-16: Migratory Birds and Climate Change: Symposium Opening Remarks Regency D (2nd Floor)Douglas Gorby

8:20am CST

S-16: Climate Science in Service of Migratory Bird Management Regency D (2nd Floor)Olivia Ledee

8:40am CST

S-16: Microclimates and Species Life History Differences Inform Climate Vulnerability in a Grassland Songbird Community Regency D (2nd Floor)Benjamin Zuckerberg

9:00am CST

S-16: Joint Venture Decision Support Tools: Brainstorming Ideas to Account for Climate Change Regency D (2nd Floor)Mohammed Al-Saffar

9:20am CST

S-16: Predicted Migratory Landbird Response to Climate Change in Texas and Louisiana Regency D (2nd Floor)T.J. Zenzal S-19: Collaborative Conservation for the Next Generation Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Rachael Carlberg

9:40am CST

S-13: Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project: Adapting to change Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Shelby Timm S-16: Navigating Change: Creating Resilient Urban Landscapes for Migratory Birds Regency D (2nd Floor)Abigail Derby Lewis

11:20am CST

S-19: Development and Implementation of Missouri's Landscape Health Index Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Jon Podoliak