2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

Zach Ford

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8:00am CST

Conference Registration Desk Open Grand Coatroom (4th Floor)

9:00am CST

W-03: Traditional Age Structured Fish Population Modeling and Simulation Mills 9 (4th Floor)

6:00pm CST

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

7:00am CST

Conference Registration Desk Open Grand Coatroom (4th Floor) Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by St. Louis Zoo WildCare Institute Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

8:00am CST

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

1:00pm CST

Lake and Reservoir Management Committee Meeting Mills 3 (4th Floor)Will Radigan

1:40pm CST

S-04: Historical Perspectives on Trout Management in Missouri Grand A (4th Floor)Mike Kruse

2:00pm CST

S-04: Trout Streams of the Northern Ozarks: Overview of Missouri's Ribbon Areas Grand A (4th Floor)Blake Stephens

2:20pm CST

S-05: The Power of Partnerships in Advancing Coldwater Conservation Grand B (4th Floor)Mike Siepker

2:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Movement of Walleye and Sauger assessed using acoustic telemetry in Lewis and Clark Lake, a Missouri River reservoir Regency C (2nd Floor)Will Radigan

3:20pm CST

S-04: Insights into Missouri's Urban Winter Trout Program Grand A (4th Floor)John Schulte

4:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Evaluation of otolith and eye lens chemistry for identifying stocked Walleye Regency C (2nd Floor)Joshua Fluur

10:20am CST

S-09: Welcome, overview of the MAFWA CSS/HD group Mills 3 (4th Floor)

10:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Enhancing the science of age estimation: the creation of fishage.org Regency D (2nd Floor)Mark Pegg Fisheries Track: Using GPS and Side Scan Sonar Data to Track Yearly Electrofishing Path Variation and Fish Community Assemblages Regency C (2nd Floor)Drew Holloway S-09: Engaging Non-traditional Audiences Through Relevancy Messaging (Formal Title: AFWA Relevancy Communication Toolkit Update) Mills 3 (4th Floor)Hiroto Hayashi

11:00am CST

S-09: Improving Dialogues in Multi-stakeholder Settings: an Experiment Mills 3 (4th Floor)Kristin Hurst S-10: Fisheries Response to Lake Restoration Projects in Northwest Iowa Natural Lakes Regency B (2nd Floor)Michael Hawkins

11:20am CST

Fisheries Track: Microplastic Abundance in Fish Species with Differing Feeding Habits in a Large Midwestern River Regency C (2nd Floor)Michael Louison S-09: WITHDRAWN Mills 3 (4th Floor)

11:40am CST

S-09: Summarizing grassland management social science literature and conservation practitioner social science needs across the Central Grasslands Mills 3 (4th Floor)Ashley Gramza

1:20pm CST

S-09: Pragmatic Applications of Creel Surveys Mills 3 (4th Floor)Susan Steffen

1:40pm CST

S-09: Species Preferences on Angler Motivational Factors in Kansas Mills 3 (4th Floor)Sarah Ulrichsen

2:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Characterizing Riverine Habitat through the Use of UAS and Side-Scan Sonar Regency C (2nd Floor)Tyler Hessler S-09: Who Fishes in Indiana: Population Segments as Management Tools Mills 3 (4th Floor)Josef Hrabowski

2:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Built to Last? Evaluating the Condition of Fish Habitat Structures in Missouri’s Ozark Reservoirs Regency C (2nd Floor)Tyler Ham S-09: Quantifying angler harvest decisions using four decades of creel survey data Mills 3 (4th Floor)Ben Neely

3:20pm CST

S-09: Anonymous Location Data Integrated with Intercept Surveys: A Powerful Combined Approach to Measuring Lake Recreation Mills 3 (4th Floor)Rebecca Krogman

3:40pm CST

S-09: Using resource size-use models to predict how climate cycles influence angler effort Mills 3 (4th Floor)Matthew Maldonado

4:00pm CST

S-09: Planning for our public: results from Wisconsin's 2023 mixed-methods recreation study Mills 3 (4th Floor)Matteo Cleary

4:20pm CST

S-09: Producer's views on conservation programs in the Rainwater Basin region of Nebraska Mills 3 (4th Floor)Natalia Hagen

4:40pm CST

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

6:00pm CST

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 Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Robert Weber

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors Grand Foyer (4th Floor)