2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

NC

Nathan Cannon

Missouri Department of Conservation

Private Land Conservationist

8:00am CST

Conference Registration Desk Open Grand Coatroom (4th Floor)

1:00pm CST

W-08: Wildlife Capture Techniques Mills 6 (4th Floor)

5:00pm CST

Student Icebreaker Meet & Greet Grand FGH (4th Floor)

6:00pm CST

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

7:00am CST

Trade Show Open Grand Foyer (4th Floor) Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by St. Louis Zoo WildCare Institute Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

10:05am CST

Coffee Break - Sponsored by Wildlife Management Institute Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

12:00pm CST

Lunch On Your Own Offsite

1:40pm CST

S-03: CWD: Strengthening Public Involvement: Iowa’s Multifaceted Approach to CWD Outreach and Management Regency E (2nd Floor)Catherine Cummings S-06: Prairie Reconstruction: Prairie Fork CA Case Study and Lessons Learned Grand C (4th Floor)Chris Newbold

2:00pm CST

S-03: CWD: Identifying the Motivations and Barriers of Landowners to Participating in Targeted Removal to Manage Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Missouri Regency E (2nd Floor)Jason Isabelle

2:20pm CST

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-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-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

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

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)

10:05am CST

Coffee Break Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

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

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

11:20am CST

Wildlife Track: Rodents in an Urban Forest: Exploring Small Mammal Ecology and the Impact of Restoration  Regency F (2nd Floor)Samantha Dennis

11:40am CST

S-08: Adaptive Management for a Reintroduced Population of Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) Grand B (4th Floor)Callie Klatt Golba

12:00pm CST

Lunch On Your Own Offsite

1:20pm CST

Wildlife Track: Quantifying the biodiversity benefit of forest cover in agricultural landscapes using environmental DNA metabarcoding Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Olivia Reves

1:40pm CST

Wildlife Track: An assessment of small mammal monitoring methods within restored prairies in Illinois Sterling 9 (2nd Floor )Bianca Saftoiu

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 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

6:00pm CST

Poster Session & Tradeshow Social - Co-Sponsored by Aquatic Control, HDR Engineering & NASA Grand Ballroom (4th Floor) P-04: Impacts of Targeted Removals on White-tailed Deer Behavior Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kristine Cotten P-10: Predicting habitat suitability for endangered Indiana bats using niche-based distribution modeling Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Elizabeth Biro 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-22: Investigating Wild Turkey Poult and Hen Diets Across Kansas: Landscape Influences on Arthropod and Plant Diversity Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Cy Marchese

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

8:00am CST

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