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7:00am • Speaker Ready Room Open
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7:00am • Continental Breakast with Exhibitors
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7:00am • Conference Registration Desk Open
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7:00am • Trade Show Open
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8:00am • Plenary Session 1
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10:05am • Coffee Break
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12:00pm • Student & Professional Networking Luncheon (pre-registration required)
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12:00pm • Lunch On Your Own
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1:00pm • Lake and Reservoir Management Committee Meeting
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1:40pm • Fisheries Track: Identifying Walleye and Lake Whitefish Spawning Habitat to Inform Habitat Improvements for Lake Sturgeon in the Lower Fox River below De Pere Dam
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1:40pm • Wildlife Track: 'On The Road Again' Native Species Seeding By Midwestern DOTs and Potential Improvements
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1:40pm • Wildlife Track: Low population densities of Missouri brown tarantulas (Aphonopelma hentzi) in Missouri glades.
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1:40pm • S-01: Audubon’s bird conservation strategy on the Mississippi River
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1:40pm • S-02: Climbing the Ladder Towards Aquatic Connectivity for Stream Fishes in Eastern South Dakota
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1:40pm • S-03: CWD: Strengthening Public Involvement: Iowa’s Multifaceted Approach to CWD Outreach and Management
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1:40pm • S-04: Historical Perspectives on Trout Management in Missouri
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1:40pm • S-05: Fishers & Farmers Partnership: Energizing Healthy Farms & Fish Habitats Through Neighbor Connections
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1:40pm • S-06: Prairie Reconstruction: Prairie Fork CA Case Study and Lessons Learned
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1:40pm • Fisheries Track: Effects of Flow Variation on Recruitment in a Central Missouri Stream Fish Assemblage
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2:00pm • Fisheries Track: Identifying Spawning Sites and Fidelity of Ogaa (walleye Sander Vitreus): Implications for Fishery Stewardship
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2:00pm • Wildlife Track: Mastering the Flames: An overview of prescribed burning training for students and early career professionals
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2:00pm • Wildlife Track: Effects of Landscape Characteristics on Occurrence and Density of Native Bumblebee Species. Fort Riley. Kansas
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2:00pm • S-01: Bottomland Forest Birds along the Upper Mississippi River
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2:00pm • S-02: Fish Freeways: How Rock Ramps are Assisting Prairie Stream Fish Movement
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2:00pm • S-03: CWD: Identifying the Motivations and Barriers of Landowners to Participating in Targeted Removal to Manage Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Missouri
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2:00pm • S-04: Trout Streams of the Northern Ozarks: Overview of Missouri's Ribbon Areas
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2:00pm • S-05: Partnering with Private Landowners on Forest Management for Water Quality
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2:00pm • S-06: Woodland Management for Biodiversity at Shaw Nature Reserve
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2:00pm • Fisheries Track: Diet and Niche Overlap of Blue Catfish and Resident Reservoir Sportfishes to Inform Stocking Decisions
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2:20pm • Fisheries Track: Evaluating the influence of climate change on walleye and largemouth bass consumption rates in a northern Wisconsin lake
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2:20pm • Wildlife Track: PHASE: Pollinator Habitat Aligned with Solar Energy
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2:20pm • Wildlife Track: The relationship between butterfly diversity and canopy cover management across 25 years in Midwestern oak savannas
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2:20pm • S-01: Breeding bird community in the Mississippi River floodplain forest: Two Decades of change
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2:20pm • S-02: Beyond barriers: Fish communities in a recovering tributary of Lake Erie
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2:20pm • S-03: CWD: Exploring Landowners’ Support for CWD Management in Illinois
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2:20pm • S-04: The Meramec River Brown Trout Dilemma - a Case Study of a Missouri Ozark Stream's Salmonid Management
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2:20pm • S-05: The Power of Partnerships in Advancing Coldwater Conservation
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2:20pm • S-06:Monitoring the Ecological Response to Restoration Treatments in the Missouri Pine-Oak Woodlands Restoration Project of the Mark Twain National Forest
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2:20pm • Fisheries Track: Zooplankton in the Upper Mississippi River System
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2:40pm • Fisheries Track: Movement of Walleye and Sauger assessed using acoustic telemetry in Lewis and Clark Lake, a Missouri River reservoir.
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2:40pm • Wildlife Track: Protecting Remnant Prairies and Grassland Reconstruction/Restoration Success Across Missouri.
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2:40pm • Wildlife Track: Monitoring tarantulas in Missouri glades: Conservation of a charismatic arachnid.
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2:40pm • S-01: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Autonomous Recording Units for Detecting Upper Mississippi River Migratory Landbirds
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2:40pm • S-02: Moxostoma Migratory Movements during Restoration Efforts in the Cuyahoga River, OH
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2:40pm • S-03: CWD: Decoding CWD Testing
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2:40pm • S-04: Bennett Spring State Fish Hatchery Renovations
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2:40pm • S-05: Conservation Counts: Building Urban and Rural Partnerships to Address Stream Biological Impairments
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2:40pm • S-06: Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades
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2:40pm • Fisheries Track: First occurrence of American Brook Lamprey (Lethenteron appendix) in the Cuyahoga River, OH
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3:00pm • Coffee Break
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3:20pm • Fisheries Track: Environmental changes lead to reduced Walleye production in Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota
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3:20pm • Wildlife Track: The Role of Extralimital Exploration in Avian Range Expansion
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3:20pm • Wildlife Track: Habitat Features and the Presence of Coyotes Cause the Greatest Shifts in Mammal Diel Activity
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3:20pm • S-01: A framework to facilitate habitat conservation for marsh birds in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions
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3:20pm • S-02: Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It to? Retrofitting an Aging Urban Dam for Multiuse, Including Recreation and Fish Passage.
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3:20pm • S-03: CWD: Where Have All the Deer gone?
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3:20pm • S-04: Insights into Missouri's Urban Winter Trout Program
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3:20pm • S-05: Growing Relationships for Increasing Wetland Practice Adoption to Improve Downstream Water Quality
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3:20pm • S-06: Burn with Care – Challenges and Considerations for Replicating Historic Fire in Missouri State Parks
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3:20pm • Fisheries Track: Spatial and temporal resource use of the Upper Mississippi River
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3:40pm • Fisheries Track: Evaluating the distribution of fish community production in northern Wisconsin lakes with different walleye recruitment histories
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3:40pm • Wildlife Track: Investigating the effects of habitat on the distribution and abundance of Chuck-will’s-widows (Antrostomus carolinensis) in central Texas, their diet across space and time, and insect availability and preference.
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3:40pm • Wildlife Track: Space use and habitat selection of a recolonized bobcat population
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3:40pm • S-01: Sora and Virginia Rail Migratory Timing and Stopover Duration in the Illinois River Valley
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3:40pm • S-02: Utilizing the USFWS National Fish Passage Coordination Map and the SARP National Aquatic Barrier Inventory and Prioritization Tool to Assess Stream Connectivity Across the Western Great Plains
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3:40pm • S-03: CWD: CWD Hunter Harvest Initiative
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3:40pm • S-04: Evaluating Brown Trout strains stocked into Spring River, Arkansas
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3:40pm • S-05: Scars to Shiners. Iowa's Private-Public Partnership to Save the Endangered Topeka Shiner through Oxbow Restorations.
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3:40pm • S-06: Native bee response to woodland and glade restoration on Missouri’s state parks
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3:40pm • Fisheries Track: Macroinvertebrate Assemblages Using Live Freshwater Mussels as Habitat
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4:00pm • Fisheries Track: Evaluation of otolith and eye lens chemistry for identifying stocked Walleye
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4:00pm • Wildlife Track: Integrated dynamic occupancy models reveal declines in gamebird distributions in Illinois and sampling bias in eBird data
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4:00pm • Wildlife Track: Habitat Selection of Gray Foxes in Southern Illinois
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4:00pm • S-01: Monitoring grassland bird populations in Missouri & beyond
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4:00pm • S-02: Connecting Freshwater Resilience and Barrier Prioritization
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4:00pm • S-03: CWD: Calculating the Cost of CWD: A Minnesota Approach
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4:00pm • S-04: Evaluation of the Effects of a Slot Length Limit and Stocking Changes for Rainbow and Brown Trout in Lake Taneycomo, Missouri
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4:00pm • S-05: Insights, Community Development, and Other Benefits of the Watershed Leaders Network
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4:00pm • S-06: Renovating Duck Creek CA: An Integrated Approach
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4:00pm • Fisheries Track: Spectaclecase Mussel Detection in the Upper Mississippi River Using eDNA
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4:20pm • Fisheries Track: Mille Lacs Lake Walleye: Changes in Body Condition Over Time in Relation to Biotic and Environmental Changes
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4:20pm • Wildlife Track: Using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System to fill knowledge gaps for priority Neotropical migratory birds in the Midwest and beyond
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4:20pm • Wildlife Track: When, where, and how prey pair antipredator behaviors to natural and anthropogenic mortality risks
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4:20pm • S-01: An Assessment of Avian and Vegetation Communities on Agricultural Conservation Easement Wetlands in Eastern South Dakota
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4:20pm • S-02: Facilitated Discussion - Developing an Aquatic Connectivity Team: An example from the Missouri Stream Connectivity Partnership.
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4:20pm • S-03: CWD: Post-Season Targeted Removal Efforts are Worth the Work to Manage CWD
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4:20pm • S-04: From Rod to Research and Resilience: How Anglers Enhance Fisheries Research and Management in Minnesota Waters of Lake Superior
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4:20pm • S-05: Engaging Private Landowners through Conservation Marketing Shoal Creek Woodlands for Wildlife Case-History
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4:20pm • Fisheries Track: Addressing the Data Need to Manage Future Change in Fisheries
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4:40pm • Fisheries Track: Evaluating Data-limited Population Assessment Tools for Walleye
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4:40pm • Wildlife Track: Expansion of Motus in Missouri and the Midwest: examples of local and large scale Motus tracking
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4:40pm • Wildlife Track: Creating a state-space model to assess the population status of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula)
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4:40pm • S-01: Owl and Nightjar Monitoring in Iowa
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4:40pm • S-03: CWD: Facilitated Discussion
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4:40pm • S-04: Community ecology in a bottle: Leveraging eDNA metabarcoding data to predict occupancy of co-occurring salmonids and gill lice ectoparasites
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4:40pm • S-05: The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Aquatic Life Monitoring Project in the Illinois River and Kaskaskia River basins, Illinois
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4:40pm • Fisheries Track: Assessing Habitat Quality Changes for Cool- and Warm-Water Fishes
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5:00pm • S-05: The Nature Conservancy at Dog Tooth Bend
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5:30pm • Michigan State University Fisheries and Wildlife Alumni and Friends Social
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6:00pm • Offsite Dinner and Social
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7:00am • Continental Breakast with Exhibitors
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7:00am • Conference Registration Desk Open
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7:00am • Speaker Ready Room Open
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8:00am • Plenary Session 2
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10:05am • Coffee Break
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10:20am • Wildlife Track: Response of White-tailed Deer Movement to Exurban Mountain Bike Trails
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10:20am • Wildlife Track: Influence of Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Abundance on Prevalence of Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) in Northern Illinois
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10:20am • S-04: Salmonid diets in Minnesota streams with waterfalls, nuisance algae, and extreme hydrology
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10:20am • S-07:Cooperative Inter-Agency Management of Invasive Carps in the United States
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10:20am • S-08: Welcome to the MidwestPARC Symposium
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10:20am • S-09: Welcome, overview of the MAFWA CSS/HD group
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10:20am • S-10: Shifting Perspectives: The Role of Aquatic Plants in the Future of Fisheries and Angling
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10:20am • S-11: Evaluating the Slenderwrist Burrowing Crayfish, Fallicambarus petilicarpus, for Endangered Species Act listing
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10:20am • S-12: Not Just Ducks...Reframing Wetland Conservation
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10:20am • Fisheries Track: Determination and Comparison of Morphometrics and Meristics Used to Identify River and Shorthead Redhorse
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10:20am • Fisheries Track: Apples and Oranges? Using radio and acoustic telemetry to evaluate restoration success.
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10:40am • Fisheries Track: Enhancing the science of age estimation: the creation of fishage.org
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10:40am • Wildlife Track: Temporal Dynamics and Potential Niche Separation Amongst Carnivores: A Decadal Analysis
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10:40am • Wildlife Track: The power of bats: evaluating protected bats during energy project planning
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10:40am • S-04: Evaluating Lake-Run Brown Trout in Saginaw Bay Using Acoustic Telemetry
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10:40am • S-07: Developing a framework to inform early detection efforts of the next carp invasion in the Missouri River Basin
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10:40am • S-08: Conservation of Missouri’s State Endangered Amphibian and Reptile Species
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10:40am • S-09: Engaging Non-traditional Audiences Through Relevancy Messaging (Formal Title: AFWA Relevancy Communication Toolkit Update)
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10:40am • S-10: Aquatic Vegetation Management Challenges and Opportunities
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10:40am • S-11: Insights from Multi-locus DNA Sequence Data into Species Boundaries within Hobbseus Crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae)
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10:40am • S-12: Tribal Wisdom on Nibi and Wetlands; Manoomin and the Circle of Life
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10:40am • Fisheries Track: Using GPS and Side Scan Sonar Data to Track Yearly Electrofishing Path Variation and Fish Community Assemblages
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11:00am • Fisheries Track: A Wide Net: Identifying Habitat Across Species and Age Groups of Fish for a Holistic View of the Ecosystem
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11:00am • Wildlife Track: Bobcat Survival Across North America: A Meta-Analysis Approach
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11:00am • Wildlife Track: Widespread pesticide exposure and plant damage in natural areas in Illinois
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11:00am • S-04: Salmonid Movement and Habitat Use in Warming North Shore Tributaries to Lake Superior
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11:00am • S-07: Assessing Variation in Habitat Quality to Inform Preventative Management of Invasive Species
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11:00am • S-08: Conservation Initiatives of the Saint Louis Zoo's Herpetology Department
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11:00am • S-09: Improving Dialogues in Multi-stakeholder Settings: an Experiment
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11:00am • S-10: Fisheries Response to Lake Restoration Projects in Northwest Iowa Natural Lakes
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11:00am • S-11: Conservation and Taxonomic Status of the Spiny Scale Crayfish, with an emphasis on Kentucky Populations
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11:00am • Fisheries Track: Big River Bluegill: How and why bluegill population dynamics vary along a large river gradient
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11:20am • Fisheries Track: Long-Term Angling for Black Bass During the Spawning Season Reduces Nest Defense and Responsiveness to Lures
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11:20am • Wildlife Track: Rodents in an Urban Forest: Exploring Small Mammal Ecology and the Impact of Restoration
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11:20am • Wildlife Track: Forest Management Impacts on Bat Health: Insights from Northeast Missouri Conservation Areas
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11:20am • S-04: Assessment of Invasive and Nuisance species in a Nebraska Reservoir Managed as a Trout Fishery
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11:20am • S-07:The Commercial Bait Dealer Program in Kansas: Aquatic Invasive Species Regulations and Inspections
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11:20am • S-08: The Return of Alligator Snapping Turtles to Their Former Range in Kansas
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11:20am • S-09: Bees, Butterflies, and Busting Silos: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pollinator Conservation Social Network Analysis
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11:20am • S-10: Why I'm establishing aquatic plants, and you should too!
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11:20am • S-11: From streams, swamps, sloughs and roadside ditches: The places you will go while sampling the rare crayfishes of Texas, USA.
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11:20am • Fisheries Track: Microplastic Abundance in Fish Species with Differing Feeding Habits in a Large Midwestern River
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11:30am • S-12: Return of the Wapato
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11:40am • Fisheries Track: Flow and temperature impacts on catfish populations in two Missouri River tributaries
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11:40am • Wildlife Track: Movement ecology of an urban community in Forest Park, Saint Louis
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11:40am • Wildlife Track: Impact of invasive Burmese python on the abundance of two endemic endangered species in the Florida Keys
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11:40am • S-04: Assessment of Isotope Shifts in Northern Pike in Response to Increased Rainbow Trout Stocking Length
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11:40am • S-07: Improving the Discoverability and Accessibility of Invasive Carp Projects and Data
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11:40am • S-08: Adaptive Management for a Reintroduced Population of Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii)
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11:40am • S-09: Summarizing grassland management social science literature and conservation practitioner social science needs across the Central Grasslands
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11:40am • S-10: Aquatic plant assessment and mapping methods: finding the sweet spot between frequency and abundance
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11:40am • Fisheries Track: Thermal Tolerances and Heat Shock Protein Regulation of Bigmouth Shiners
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12:00pm • Lunch On Your Own
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1:20pm • Fisheries Track: Age and Growth Analyses on a Stunted vs. Non-Stunted Population of White Perch in Southeastern Nebraska Reservoirs
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1:20pm • Wildlife Track: Quantifying the biodiversity benefit of forest cover in agricultural landscapes using environmental DNA metabarcoding
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1:20pm • Wildlife Track: Multi-Method Occupancy of Semi-Aquatic Mammals in Southern Illinois
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1:20pm • S-04: Advancing Cold Water Beyond Trout: Characterizing Aquatic Biota and Habitat Across Thermal Gradients in Missouri
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1:20pm • S-07: What could adaptive management of invasive bigheaded carp in the Tennessee and Cumberland river subbasins look like?
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1:20pm • CONCURRENT TECHNICAL SESSIONS & ORGANIZED SYMPOSIA
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1:20pm • S-08: A PVA to Support Conservation Planning for Blanding’s Turtles in Iowa
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1:20pm • S-09: Pragmatic Applications of Creel Surveys
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1:20pm • S-10: Testing the Waters: A Foray Into Floating Wetlands
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1:20pm • S-11: Assessing the effects a managed landscape has on the burrow densities of the Piedmont Prairie Burrowing Crayfish in Sumter National Forest, South Carolina
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1:20pm • S-12: Wiski/Oski (River Cane): A Keystone Species in the Floodplain and in Chickasaw Culture
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1:20pm • Fisheries Track: Impacts of Habitat Enhancement on Fish Assemblage Integrity in Several Midwestern Streams
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1:40pm • Fisheries Track: Smallmouth Bass Demographics in the Kaskaskia and Vermilion Rivers
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1:40pm • Wildlife Track: Assessing white-tailed deer body condition using trail camera photos
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1:40pm • Wildlife Track: Inter-specific differences in waterfowl responses to hunting pressure and environmental conditions at an autumn stopover
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1:40pm • S-04: Heritage Brook Trout program in southeast Minnesota
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1:40pm • S-07: Evaluating Invasive Carp Management on the Illinois Waterway Through Adaptive ‘Multi-Agency Monitoring’
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1:40pm • S-08: Effects of Prescribed Fire and Mowing on Smooth Greensnake Detection and Nesting Activity
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1:40pm • S-09: Species Preferences on Angler Motivational Factors in Kansas
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1:40pm • S-10: rom Past Failures to Future Successes: Efforts to Establish Aquatic Vegetation in Arkansas Reservoirs.
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1:40pm • S-11: Shelter Preferences of Cambarus robustus, a Surrogate Study for the Federally Threatened Cambarus callainus
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1:40pm • Fisheries Track: Response of Fish Communities to Backwater Restoration in the Upper Mississippi River
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1:50pm • S-12: 𐓲𐓟𐓷𐓘𐓵𐓟 (tse wathe): Osage Culinary Traditions and Food Sovereignty, Veronica Pipestem
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2:00pm • Fisheries Track: Exploring Assessment Techniques for Minnesota's Newest Sport Fish: the Burbot
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2:00pm • Wildlife Track: An assessment of small mammal monitoring methods within restored prairies in Illinois
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2:00pm • Wildlife Track: Surfing the Blue Wave: Is blue-winged teal resource selection influenced by fine-scale variation in wetland availability?
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2:00pm • S-04: Brook Trout Management in the Iowa Driftless Region
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2:00pm • S-07: Exploring tools to evaluate invasive carp management success across different density gradients and river systems
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2:00pm • S-08: Factors that Influence Capture and Size at Capture of Common Gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis) and Dekay’s Brownsnakes (Storeia dekayi) in Northern Indiana
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2:00pm • S-09: Who fishes in Indiana: Population segments as management tools
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2:00pm • S-10: Lake DeGray Vegetation Re-Establishment Project – Vegetation Mapping
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2:00pm • S-11: Status survey for Banded Mudbug (Lacunicambarus freudensteini) and Lonesome Gravedigger (Lacunicambarus mobilensis) in Southeastern Mississippi
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2:00pm • Fisheries Track: Characterizing Riverine Habitat through the Use of UAS and Side-Scan Sonar
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2:20pm • Wildlife Track: Use of thermal-imaging drones to assess assumptions of density estimation techniques
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2:20pm • Wildlife Track: Wetland Management and Habitat Associations of Breeding Secretive Marsh Birds, including King Rail, in Missouri
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2:20pm • S-04: Assessment of Coldwater Fisheries Resources in Northeast Iowa.
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2:20pm • S-07: Invasive Carp Growth Chronologies: Management Tool To Help Evaluate Harvest Success?
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2:20pm • S-08: Discovering Landscape Connectivity Patterns of Wood Turtles in Northern Michigan
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2:20pm • S-09: Quantifying angler harvest decisions using four decades of creel survey data
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2:20pm • S-10: Aquatic Vegetation Survey Methods in Iowa
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2:20pm • S-11: Species Distribution Modeling of Distocambarus spp. in the Physiographic Piedmont Region of South Carolina
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2:20pm • S-12: Reconstructing wetland garden productivity and resilience at Cahokia, Illinois (900-1350 AD)
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2:20pm • Fisheries Track: Recruitment of Channel Catfish stocked as advanced fingerlings and yearlings in Ohio reservoirs
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2:20pm • Fisheries Track: Built to Last? Evaluating the Condition of Fish Habitat Structures in Missouri’s Ozark Reservoirs
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2:40pm • Fisheries Track: Trends in Population Status and Range-Wide Geographic Patterns of Genetic Variation for the Federally Petitioned Bluestripe Darter
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2:40pm • Wildlife Track: River-Floodplain Connectivity: Effects on Ecological Communities in Restored Wetlands along the Lower Missouri River
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2:40pm • S-04: Brook Trout Restoration in Iowa using Multi-Pass Electrofishing to Removal Nonnatives
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2:40pm • S-07: Invasive Carp Removals in Missouri River Tributaries
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2:40pm • S-08: Herpetofauna use of canebrake habitat in southern Illinois
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2:40pm • S-10: Point Intercept Sampling for Aquatic Macrophytes in Northern Michigan Inland Lakes
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2:40pm • S-12: Native Landscapes: Engaging and Empowering Community
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2:40pm • Fisheries Track: Assessment of Channel Catfish Population Demographics in Illinois Impoundments and Evaluation of Spawning Boxes
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3:00pm • Coffee Break
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3:20pm • Fisheries Track: Linking Stream Fish Thermal Ecology and Adaptive Capacity to Prioritize Watershed Areas with Greatest Value for Conservation
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3:20pm • S-07: Invasive Carp Removal Approaches in the Missouri River Basin
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3:20pm • S-08: Resurveying the Amphibians and Reptiles of Chicagoland Forest Preserves
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3:20pm • S-09: Anonymous Location Data Integrated with Intercept Surveys: A Powerful Combined Approach to Measuring Lake Recreation
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3:20pm • S-10: Ohio’s invasive Hydrilla response: case studies and lessons learned
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3:20pm • S-11: First Comprehensive Habitat Survey of the Upper Guyandotte River and Pinnacle Creek for an Endangered Crayfish (Cambarus veteranus).
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3:20pm • S-12: Growing native edible plants for food and wildlife in farms and gardens.
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3:20pm • Fisheries Track: Identifying potential sources of natural recruitment of muskellunge in Green Bay, Lake Michigan
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3:40pm • Fisheries Track: Navigating the Currents: Investigating Environmental Cues for Pallid Sturgeon Immigration and Emigration for a Missouri River Tributary
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3:40pm • S-07: Monitoring Invasive Bigheaded Carp Movement Across Sub-basins in Response to Removal Efforts
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3:40pm • S-08: Ecology of an Urban Population of Common Snapping Turtles in Indiana
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3:40pm • S-09: Using resource size-use models to predict how climate cycles influence angler effort
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3:40pm • S-10: Reservoir Habitat Management in Ohio – The Past, Present, and Future
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3:40pm • S-11: Preliminary Evaluation of Two Active Sampling Methods for Crayfishes on the Southern Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee
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3:40pm • Fisheries Track: Examining stunted Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) population in River Reservoir
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3:50pm • S-12: Ducks Plus: Cultivating Sustainable Landscapes with Partners
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4:00pm • Fisheries Track: Dispersal of Juvenile Lake Sturgeon Stocked in the Saginaw River Basin
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4:00pm • S-07: Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, roll in developing and maintaining invasive carp removal programs through the commercial fishing industry
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4:00pm • S-08: Temporal variation in occupancy dynamics of ringed (Ambystoma annulatum) and marbled (A. opacum) salamanders in Missouri
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4:00pm • S-09: Planning for our public: results from Wisconsin's 2023 mixed-methods recreation study
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4:00pm • S-10: Employing Recreational Side-Scan Sonar to Evaluate the Relationship between Aquatic Vegetation and Sportfish Catch Rates across Ohio Reservoirs
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4:00pm • S-11: Evaluation of Eye Stalk Microchemistry as a Potential Indicator of Crayfish Environmental History
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4:00pm • Fisheries Track: Applications of Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Fish Biodiversity Assessments of Missouri Ozark Stream and Mississippi River Lowland Habitats
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4:10pm • S-12: Incorporating Ecological Design for Production and Resilience: A Case Study in the Lower Missouri River Floodplain
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4:20pm • S-07: Copious Copi: Using Incentives and Marketing to Control Bigheaded Carps
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4:20pm • S-08: Weather weirding and frog phenology: how some species may adapt to climate change
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4:20pm • S-09: Producer's views on conservation programs in the Rainwater Basin region of Nebraska
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4:20pm • S-10: In the weeds: the role of aquatic macrophytes in predicting the success of Walleye recruitment in Minnesota and Wisconsin
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4:20pm • S-11: Clawing for Survival: Mapping Invasive and Endemic Crayfishes in the Upper Saint Francis River Basin
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4:20pm • Fisheries Track: Benefits and pitfalls of using time-lapse-photography to collect urban angler information
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4:20pm • Fisheries Track: Reproductive Characteristics of a Vulnerable Riverine Specialist in the Unchannelized Missouri River
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4:30pm • S-12: Not Just for Ducks: Facilitated Discussion
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4:40pm • S-07: Use of Invasive Species to Address Food Security
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4:40pm • S-08: Population genetics of the crawfish frog (Rana areolata) in Oklahoma support a single taxon with little genetic differentiation
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4:40pm • S-09: Discussion: Social Science Needs and Priorities
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4:40pm • S-10: Public and professional perspectives on aquatic plant management and research
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4:40pm • Fisheries Track: Lessons and advice on the development of a mobile-entry platform
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4:40pm • Fisheries Track: Native Rough Fish Management Progress in Minnesota
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6:00pm • Poster Session & Tradeshow Social
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6:00pm • P-01: Efficacy of Trapping Programs to Control Raccoon Populations
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6:00pm • P-02: Health assessment of raccoons (Procyon lotor) across urban-rural gradients in St. Louis and Kansas City to quantify environment-human-wildlife disease interactions.
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6:00pm • P-03: Exploring Variation in Immune Physiology and Movement in White-Tailed Deer
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6:00pm • P-04: Impacts of Targeted Removals on White-tailed Deer Behavior
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6:00pm • P-05: Analysis of Trap Design Characteristics of Fisher Monitoring Stations
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6:00pm • P-06: Effect of Prairie Dog Burrow Density on Intensity of Ticks on Small Mammals in South Dakota
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6:00pm • P-07: Using Camera Traps to Explore Coyote Presence Across an Urbanization Gradient in St. Louis
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6:00pm • P-08: Examining the Intraspecies and Interspecies Communication Between Canid Species in Central Wisconsin
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6:00pm • P-09: Survey of mammal biodiversity in a midwestern urban natural area using trail cameras: a collaboration between Missouri Western State University (MWSU) and Snapshot USA (2022-2024)
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6:00pm • P-10: Predicting habitat suitability for endangered Indiana bats using niche-based distribution modeling
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6:00pm • P-11: Bat Communities along an Urbanization Gradient in St. Louis, MO
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6:00pm • P-12: Comparing Pre and Post White-nose Syndrome Distributions of Three Bat Species in Eastern Nebraska
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6:00pm • P-13: Exploring Fecal and Environmental DNA Detection of Bat Species of Greatest Conservation Need via Nanopore Adaptive Sampling
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6:00pm • P-14: Tracking Black-crowned Night-herons Across Chicagoland
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6:00pm • P-15: Optimizing Density Estimation Methods Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Eastern-Whip-poor-wills (Antrostromus vociferus)
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6:00pm • P-16: Activity patterns of Eastern Whip-poor-wills across different Midwestern forest management regimes
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6:00pm • P-17: Nestling fecal metabarcoding provides insights into the diet and habitat quality of a declining grassland passerine
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6:00pm • P-18: Long-term dynamics of seasonal tree phenology and forest songbird populations across the Central Hardwoods (Preliminary Findings)
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6:00pm • P-19: Is there a shift in Migration Timing of Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus)?
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6:00pm • P-20: Assessing Bird-Window Strike Collisions: Patterns of Avian Mortality and Mitigation Strategies at Ball State University
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6:00pm • P-21: Role of acorns in Red-headed Woodpecker overwintering in northeastern Illinois
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6:00pm • P-22: Investigating Wild Turkey Poult and Hen Diets Across Kansas: Landscape Influences on Arthropod and Plant Diversity
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6:00pm • P-23: Functional Connectivity of Blanding’s Turtle Habitat in Central Michigan
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6:00pm • P-24: Spatial Ecology of Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) on Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, Northwest Missouri
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6:00pm • P-25: Demographics of Two Spotted Turtle Populations in Clark County, Ohio
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6:00pm • P-26: Assessment of Spotted Turtle Populations in Southwestern Ohio
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6:00pm • P-27: Metapopulation Dynamics of Urban Turtles: Why Did the Turtle Leave Campus?
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6:00pm • P-28: Spatial and temporal patterns in Galapagos giant tortoise nesting activity
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6:00pm • P-29: The Incubation Duration of Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Nests Located on Cape Lookout National Shoreline
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6:00pm • P-30: Indirect Monitoring of Burmese Python (Python Bivittatus) Populations Through Cause-Specific Mortality of Virginia Opossums (Didelphis Virginiana) In Key Largo, Florida, USA
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6:00pm • P-31: On The Overwintering Temperatures Of Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) in East-Central Missouri And The Influence Of Substrate And Shaded Air Temperature On Emergence, Egress, And Ingress
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6:00pm • P-32: Herpetofauna and Tarantula Avoidance: A Missouri Glades Location Survey
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6:00pm • P-33: St. Louis Wildlife Project
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6:00pm • P-34: Testing for Tick-borne Disease Pathogens in the Lone Star Tick in St. Louis
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6:00pm • P-35: Measuring welfare of wild tarantulas during field surveys using heart rate.
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6:00pm • P-36: Conservation Status Assessments and Surveys of Cambarus monongalensis and Lacunicambarus thomai Within Western Pennsylvania
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6:00pm • P-37: A Survey of Crayfishes of the Upper Cumberland & Kentucky River Watersheds in Southeastern Kentucky
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6:00pm • P-38: Effects of Environmental Variables on Crayfish Occupancy in Shallow Eutrophic Lakes and Wetlands
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6:00pm • P-39: Freshwater Mussel Diversity and Restoration in Cub Creek, Nebraska
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6:00pm • P-40: Integrating eDNA Techniques in Freshwater Biomonitoring of Fish and Macroinvertebrates
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6:00pm • P-41: Quantifying Avian Predation Rates of the Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius)
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6:00pm • P-42: Assessment of Fish Guilds in the Lower Wabash River Using Standardized Long-Term Monitoring
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6:00pm • P-43: Understanding our past and forecasting our future: discovering associations among hydrogeomorphology, water chemistry, and the distribution and abundance of biota in the Upper Mississippi River System
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6:00pm • P-44: Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Aquatic Life Monitoring in the Illinois River and Kaskaskia River Basins
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6:00pm • P-45: A Comparison of Gear Efficacy for Sampling Fishes Occupying Near-Shore, Off-Channel Riverine Habitats
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6:00pm • P-46: Planning for Resiliency: Identifying Aquatic Conservation Priorities
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6:00pm • P-47: Fishing for recovery: Assessing stream fish and macroinvertebrate community response post-fertilizer spill into an Illinois creek.
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6:00pm • P-48: Life History of Skipjack Herring in the Mississippi River
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6:00pm • P-49: Thermal Ecology of Salmonids in Northern Japan: Predicting Co-existence Among Competitors in a Warming World
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6:00pm • P-50: Spatial Extent of Fish Community Change in an Indiana Stream Following Reconnection to the Mississippi River Basin
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6:00pm • P-51: Assessing Differences in Reproductive Potential in Two Shovelnose Sturgeon Populations
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6:00pm • P-52: From the cradle: genetic diversity of the central Missouri endemic Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae)
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6:00pm • P-53: Distributional Survey of the Fishes of the Lower St. Francis River Watershed
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6:00pm • P-54: Assessing Fish Passage Barriers in Wyoming and Montana
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6:00pm • P-55: Investigating the sublethal responses of Smallmouth Bass to environmentally relevant concentrations of PFOS
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6:00pm • P-56: Evidence of skin pigment mutations in Blue Catfish and their importance to a Midwestern fishery
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6:00pm • P-57: Assessment of Habitat Suitability in Maumee and Sandusky Rivers for Sauger (Sander canadensis) Reintroduction
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6:00pm • P-58: Stock-Contribution Comparisons for Walleye Over Time in Lake McConaughy, Nebraska
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6:00pm • P-59: Assessing Ogaa Mortality and Angling Practices in a Changing Climate
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6:00pm • P-60: Diet composition and overlap of walleye and largemouth bass in northern Wisconsin lakes: implications for walleye recruitment and size structure of prey fish
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6:00pm • P-61: Building a case for holistic and conservative management of a genetically unique strain of Walleye in Southern Missouri
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6:00pm • P-62: Growth and Mortality of Devils Lake White Bass
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6:00pm • P-63: Where the lake whitefish are in the upper Great Lakes
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6:00pm • P-64: How will growth of warm-water and cool-water fish change with warming climate?
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6:00pm • P-65: Big and Small, We Sample Them All: An Assessment of Missouri’s Flathead Catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) Fisheries to Guide Management and Sampling Efforts
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6:00pm • P-66: Examining Age-length Relationships across North Platte Channel Catfish (Ictalurus Punctatus)
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6:00pm • P-67: Population Demographics of Three Major Catfish Species on the Wabash River
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6:00pm • P-68: Maintaining Trophy Potential of Riverine Smallmouth Bass Populations in the Menominee River
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6:00pm • P-69: Evaluating Natural Recruitment of Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, and Black Crappie in Two Community Fishing Ponds in Southeastern South Dakota
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6:00pm • P-70: Abundance and growth rates of Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) from Lake Michigan and connected tributary habitats
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6:00pm • P-71: The Wind Beneath our Detection Efficiencies
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6:00pm • P-72: Sanding or Sectioning: how does otolith preparation method affect reader agreement?
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6:00pm • P-73: Temporal Replication of Assigned Ages for Silver Carp Otoliths
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6:00pm • P-74: Evaluating Flood-Induced Habitat Connections Using Remotely Sensed Data
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6:00pm • P-75: Natal Origin and Movement of Invasive Carp in the Missouri River Basin
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6:00pm • P-76: Investigating Bigheaded Carp Migratory Behavior in a Large Lotic System
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6:00pm • P-77: Temporal Occupancy of Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) within Tributaries of the Ohio River
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6:00pm • P-78: Community Sampling Gears Affect Silver Carp Density Estimates Derived from Hydroacoustic Surveys
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6:00pm • P-79: Spatial and Temporal Trends of Silver Carp Body Condition in the Ohio River
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6:00pm • P-80: TRACKING MOVEMENT AND HABITAT UTILIZATION OF INVASIVE CARP WITHIN THE PRESENCE FRONT OF THE OHIO RIVER
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6:00pm • P-81: Evaluating Conspecific Feeding Sounds as an Attractant for Invasive Carp
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6:00pm • P-82: Genetic control of grass carp through RNA interference
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6:00pm • P-83: Determining hybridization of bighead and silver carp by analyzing body shape with geometric morphometric techniques
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6:00pm • P-84: Impacts of Spatiotemporal Variation of Hydrological Conditions on Native and Invasive Ichthyoplankton Communities in the Lower Wabash River Basin
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6:00pm • P-85: Quantifying the Impacts of Invasive Carp through Monitoring Native, Planktivorous Gizzard Shad in the Open River Reach
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6:00pm • P-86: How invasive carp removal affects fish community size spectra.
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6:00pm • P-87: EcoPath with Ecosim: Application in the lower Mississippi River for Invasive Bighead and Silver Carp Management
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6:00pm • P-88: Invasive Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and the impact on native fish communities throughout the Mississippi River basin
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6:00pm • P-89: Effects of Embryonic Exposure to Predation Cues on Embryo and Larval Behavior in Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas)
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6:00pm • P-90: Density and community composition of aquatic invertebrates in interdunal wetland ponds at Ludington State Park, MI, USA
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6:00pm • P-91: Comparisons of Zooplankton Communities Before and After Chemical Renovation in Lake Ogallala, Nebraska
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6:00pm • P-92: Angler use and satisfaction of South Dakota urban and community fisheries following supplemental stocking of adult Largemouth Bass and Hybrid Sunfish
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6:00pm • P-93: Fishy Business: How to Market the Outdoors
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6:00pm • P-94: Urban Wildlife Management success: Eleven years of Canada goose (Branta Canadensis) population management on Missouri Western State University campus.
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6:00pm • P-95: Subject Matter Focus of State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Magazines
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6:00pm • P-96: Development and Cloud Implementation of the New Annual National Land Cover Database for the United States
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6:00pm • P-97: Impact of L-Dopa on the growth and development of Brassica: Insights from velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) seed metabolomics
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6:00pm • P-98: Velvet bean soil inclusions enhance tomatoes' growth, biomass, and photosynthetic assimilation efficiency
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7:00am • Continental Breakast with Exhibitors
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7:00am • Conference Registration Desk Open
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8:00am • S-07: Aggregation for Eradication: An Exploratory Grass Carp Management Strategy in the Upper Mississippi River
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8:00am • S-08: Crawfish Frog Conservation in the Midwest
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8:00am • CONCURRENT TECHNICAL SESSIONS & ORGANIZED SYMPOSIA
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8:00am • S-11: Molecular Surveillance of a Potential Signal Crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) Invasion in the Midwest United States
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8:00am • S-13: Practical data pipelines: from raw data to valuable product
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8:00am • S-14: Managing for Resilient Walleye Populations: Avoiding an Ecological Tipping Point
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8:00am • S-15: An Overview of the Sustainable Rivers Program
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8:00am • S-16: Migratory Birds and Climate Change: Symposium Opening Remarks
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8:00am • S-17: The Public’s Perceived Importance and View of Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies
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8:00am • S-18: FishCAST: Introducing the North Central Division Fisheries Community Advocacy and Sustainability Team
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8:00am • S-19: Midwest Landscape Initiative and the Midwest Conservation Blueprint
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8:00am • Fisheries Track: Conserving "native rough fish" through fisheries management in the Midwest
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8:00am • Fisheries Track: Population Characteristics of Buffalo in Wisconsin: Contribution and Resiliency to Bowfishing Harvest
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8:20am • S-07: Fisheries dependent and independent data inform a capture technique for an emerging invasive fish species in the mainstem Mississippi River; Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus
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8:20am • S-08: The Status of the Crawfish Frog, Lithobates areolatus, in Kansas
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8:20am • S-11: Development of Point-of-Use Detection Tools for Prevention and Control of Red Swamp Crayfish
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8:20am • S-13: Harmful Algal Blooms, Leveraging Remotely Sensed Data for Timely Decisions and Long-term Understanding
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8:20am • S-14: Seeing (bright) spots: Factors related to unexpected walleye success
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8:20am • S-15: Modifying Water Velocities to Promote Lake Sturgeon Spawning Success on the Mississippi River
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8:20am • S-16: Climate Science in Service of Migratory Bird Management
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8:20am • S-17: Is It Working? An Evaluation of a State's R3 Programs
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8:20am • S-19: The Five Land Languages: How Differing Perceptions of Place Constrain Conservation Delivery, and What We Can Do About It
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8:20am • Fisheries Track: Evaluating Lake Sturgeon Spawning Site Use and the Relative Contribution of Spawning Tributaries to Harvest in the Lake Winnebago System
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8:20am • Fisheries Track: Looking Towards the Future: Individual Identification Tag Exploration on Bigmouth Shiners for use on Small-bodied At-risk Fish in Nebraska
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8:40am • S-07: Development and Assessment of Novel Tools and Techniques for Capture, Deterrence, and Monitoring of Invasive Carp
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8:40am • S-08: Evaluating the Status of Crawfish Frogs (Rana areolata) in Oklahoma through Frog Call Surveys and Species Distribution Models
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8:40am • S-11: Red Swamp Crayfish Home Range and Movement in an Invaded Lentic Ecosystem
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8:40am • S-13: Integrating Long-term Assessment Data to Evaluate Muskellunge Stocking across Wisconsin Inland Lakes
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8:40am • S-14: Understanding and building resilience in Green Bay walleye populations
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8:40am • S-15: Lake Sturgeon Response to Modified Flows on the Salt River
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8:40am • S-16: Microclimates and Species Life History Differences Inform Climate Vulnerability in a Grassland Songbird Community
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8:40am • S-17: Attracting Diverse Participants to School Shooting Sports Programs (Formal Project Title: Youth Shooting Sports Diversity and Engagement)
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8:40am • S-19: Promoting Habitat: Engage, connect, empower and instill an ownership. People protect what they value
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8:40am • Fisheries Track: Assessing Age and Incremental Growth Rates in Cedar River Shovelnose Sturgeon through an 18-year Mark-Recapture Dataset
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8:40am • Fisheries Track: Taxonomic and Functional Shifts in Riverine Fish Community Assemblages Across Midwest National Parks
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9:00am • S-07: A New and Innovative Method for Invasive Carp Ichthyoplankton Dispersal Control and Monitoring in Open-River Conditions
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9:00am • S-08: Current status and future directions for Crawfish Frog conservation in Arkansas
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9:00am • S-11: Habitat Selectivity by Invasive Red Swamp Crayfish
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9:00am • S-13: A long-term study evaluating plant community response to patch-burn with cattle grazing in Missouri’s native remnant prairies.`
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9:00am • S-14: The Recovery of Saginaw Bay Walleye, a Case Study in Resiliency
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9:00am • S-15: Assessing the effects of experimental flow releases on Shovelnose Sturgeon spawning in the Des Moines River, Iowa
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9:00am • S-16: Factors driving long-term changes in duck harvest distributions in the Central and Mississippi Flyways
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9:00am • S-17: Attracting New Adult Hunters with Tested Messages and Ideal Media (Formal Project Title: New Hunter Ads for Target Audience)
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9:00am • S-18: Overview of DEIJA and Indigenous relations in AFS
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9:00am • S-19: Missouri Habitat Strike Teams: Partnering for Collaborative Landscape Conservation
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9:00am • Fisheries Track: Molecular Sexing of Lake Sturgeon Allows for Determination of Sex Ratios and Sex-Specific Growth Rates in the St. Clair – Detroit River System
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9:00am • Fisheries Track: If at First You Don’t Succeed: The Evolution of Capture Methods in Great Lakes Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) Control
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9:20am • S-07: Effectiveness of an invasive carp underwater acoustic deterrent system at Mississippi River Lock 19
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9:20am • S-08: Status of the Crawfish Frog (Lithobates areolatus) in Missouri
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9:20am • S-11: Influence of Environmental Characteristics on Procambarus clarkii Burrowing in Southeast Michigan Golf Course Waterbodies
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9:20am • S-13: Incorporating Long-term Fisheries Data to Understand Fish Recruitment in a Dynamic Ecosystem
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9:20am • S-14: Managing Sustainable Walleye Harvest on Lake Erie
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9:20am • S-15: Shovelnose Sturgeon Summer Habitat Selection on the Des Moines River, Iowa
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9:20am • S-16: Predicted Migratory Landbird Response to Climate Change in Texas and Louisiana
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9:20am • S-17: Harnessing the Growth in 35–44-Year-Old Participation
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9:20am • S-18: A History of STEM and DEIA: Challenges, Trailblazers, and What the Future Holds
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9:20am • S-19: Collaborative Conservation for the Next Generation
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9:20am • Fisheries Track: Intraspecific variation in stable isotopes provides insight into adfluvial migrations and ecology of brook trout in Lake Superior tributaries
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9:20am • Fisheries Track: Alternative Data Sources Predict (Dis)similar Connectivity Networks Among Minnesota Lakes
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9:40am • S-07: Deterring Upstream Movement of Invasive Carp in the Kansas River
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9:40am • S-08:A Brief History and Status Update of the Northern Crawfish Frog in Iowa
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9:40am • S-13: Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project: Adapting to change
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9:40am • S-14: Using angler derived data to assess walleye fisheries and resilience
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9:40am • S-15: Movement of Pectoral Sandpipers from an Iowa stopover site
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9:40am • S-16: Navigating Change: Creating Resilient Urban Landscapes for Migratory Birds
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9:40am • S-17: WAFWA Hunter Personas and Evolutionary Path
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9:40am • S-18: A Systems Approach to DEI Planning at a State Agency
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9:40am • Fisheries Track: Using Eye Lenses to Identify Rearing Origin of Large, Fingerling Walleye
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9:40am • Fisheries Track: Tracking the Spread of Invasive Mollusks in the Illinois River Watershed
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10:15am • Time and Place DeBrief Meeting (For host team representatives from Missouri (2025) and Indiana (2026)
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10:20am • S-07: Assessment of Sampling Gears for Adult Invasive Carp in Mid-Order Rivers in Nebraska
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10:20am • S-08: Status of the Crawfish Frog (Lithobates areolatus) in Illinois
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10:20am • S-11: Habitat Associations of Invasive Rusty Crayfish and Native Virile Crayfish in a Shallow, Eutrophic Natural Lake
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10:20am • S-14: 40 Years of Walleye Observations in Pool 14 of the Upper Miss. River
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10:20am • S-15: USACE Mobile - Improving Fish Passage, Mussel Habitat, and Fish Spawning Habitat Through Modification of Federal Reservoir Operations
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10:20am • S-16: Joint Venture Decision Support Tools: Brainstorming Ideas to Account for Climate Change
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10:20am • S-17: Exploring R3 Opportunities in Midwestern State Parks
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10:20am • S-18: Survey Says: We are not meeting the needs of students and ECPs within the NCD
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10:20am • S-19: A Partner-Focused Path Forward To Conserve Grasslands and Midwest Communities
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10:20am • Fisheries Track: History of Fish Production and Design in North America
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10:20am • Fisheries Track: Assessing Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) Abundance Dynamics in Tailwater Habitats Using Side-scan Sonar Techniques
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10:40am • S-07: Silver Carp Biomass Estimation Using Low-Cost Consumer-Grade Technology to Inform Management Strategies
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10:40am • S-08: An Update on the Status and Conservation of Crawfish Frogs (Lithobates areolatus) in Indiana
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10:40am • S-11: Stress levels of P. Clarkii and F. Rusticus differ along the Chicago River
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10:40am • S-14: Lake Pepin - Perspectives from 60 Years of Annual Monitoring
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10:40am • S-15: Native Freshwater Mussels in the Allegheny River: Science to Support the Sustainable Rivers Program
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10:40am • S-16: Translating Science Into Decision Support Tools to Address Global Change Threats
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10:40am • 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
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10:40am • S-18: Moderated Panel Discussion for FishCAST Symposium
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10:40am • S-19: Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act: An Underutilized Tool for Conservation Planning
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10:40am • Fisheries Track: Bioprogramming: A Tool to Help Guide Hatchery Design into the Modern Era
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10:40am • Fisheries Track: Evaluating juvenile Grass Carp behavioral responses to sound
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11:00am • S-07: Missouri River Tributary Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) Population Assessment
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11:00am • S-08: Multiple lines of evidence reveal interspecific hybridization between the Crawfish Frog (Rana areolata) and two sympatric congeners
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11:00am • S-11: Parasite-Induced Trophic Cascade via Trait-Mediated Effects on Invasive Crayfish
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11:00am • S-14: Devils Lake Walleye: History and Factors Impacting Sustainability.
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11:00am • S-15: Environmental Pool Management on Corps Pools and Reservoirs: A Clear Case for Ecological Benefits
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11:00am • S-16: Moderated Panel Discussion
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11:00am • S-17: Attracting Participants to LearnHunting.org (Formal Project Title: LearnHunting.org Pilot State Marketing)
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11:00am • S-19: Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape – Making Connectivity Progress in a Fragmented Landscape
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11:00am • Fisheries Track: Variation in Fatty Acid Composition of Channel Catfish and Blue Catfish in Two Central Ohio Reservoirs
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11:00am • Fisheries Track: Using Side-Scan Sonar and N-Mixture Models to Estimate the Abundance of Invasive Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) in the Lamine River, MO
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11:20am • S-07: Length-based stock assessments for grass carp in Lake Erie
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11:20am • S-08: Future headstarting plans for Indiana’s endangered Crawfish frogs
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11:20am • S-14: Factors affecting year-class strength of Walleye (Sander vitreus) populations in western irrigation reservoirs
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11:20am • S-15: Sustainable Rivers Program E-Flow and E-Pool Efforts on the Kansas and Osage Rivers
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11:20am • S-17: U.S. and Midwestern Hunting and Fishing Participation Trends via R3 Dashboard
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11:20am • S-19: Development and Implementation of Missouri's Landscape Health Index
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11:20am • Fisheries Track: Influence of Thermal Variation on Paddlefish Thermal Tolerance, Recovery and Post-Release Behavior
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11:20am • Fisheries Track: Enhancing proactive aquatic nuisance species management by developing a standardized risk screening workflow
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11:40am • S-07: Limited Catch: The Use of Supplementary Biological Data To Further Develop Our Understanding Of Lake Erie Grass Carp
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11:40am • S-08: Management of crawfish frogs (Lithobates areolatus) based on breeding pond manipulation, head starting, and disease implications at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern I
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11:40am • S-14: How RAD are Walleye Fisheries at the Southern End of their Range?
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11:40am • S-15: Where Do We Go From Here? - Advancing the Sustainable Rivers Program to New Rivers and Opportunities in the Midwest
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11:40am • S-17: Quality Programs Deserve Qualitative Methods
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11:40am • S-19: Planning for Pollinators: How Voluntary Conservation Agreements Can Encourage Landscape-Scale Conservation
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11:40am • Fisheries Track: Understanding fecal microbiome of Pallid Sturgeon
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11:40am • Fisheries Track: Spatial and Temporal Variation of Invasive Carp Spawning Activity in the Illinois River Basin