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Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2017

To return to the Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference website, go to http://www.midwestfw.org/ The following schedule and room names are subject to change (as of February 1, 2017). Please check back for updates.

Presenters: Presenters for technical presentations are either the primary author (the first name listed in the abstract), or are indicated with an asterisk next to their name.

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1:20pm CST

Technical Session. Influence of Trap Modifications and Environmental Predictors on Capture Success of Southern Flying Squirrels Hawthorne

1:40pm CST

Technical Session. Effects of Climate and Landscape on Water Supply to Beaver Ponds Grand Ballroom D Technical Session. Home range use and survival of southern flying squirrels in fragmented landscapes Hawthorne

2:00pm CST

Technical Session. Evaluating Nest Site Selection of Southern Flying Squirrels in West-Central Illinois Hawthorne

2:20pm CST

Technical Session. Survival of Gray and Fox Squirrels in Minnesota: A Case Study of the Effects of Hunting Hawthorne

2:40pm CST

Technical Session. Dangerous Misperceptions: Eastern Cottontail Survival in an Agroecosystem Hawthorne

3:20pm CST

Technical Session. Temporal Dynamics of Large Grazer Space Use in an Experimental Heterogeneous Landscape Grand Ballroom D Technical Session. Twenty Years of Furbearer Trapping Data from the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge Hawthorne

3:40pm CST

Technical Session. Plant Diversity Affects Mammal Community Structure in Western North Dakota Grasslands Hawthorne

2:40pm CST

Technical Session. New Insights into the Common Predators of Grassland Wildlife Grand Ballroom D

4:00pm CST

Technical Session. Evaluating the Sensitivity of Density Estimates in a Spatial Capture-Recapture Model of Black Bears in the Northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan Arbor I/II

4:20pm CST

Technical Session. Characterizing Individual Variation in Resource Selection of Elk in Missouri Arbor I/II

6:00pm CST

Poster Display. Application of Photo-identification Software Using Spot Patterns of African Civets (Civettictis Civetta) in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Bat Community Ecology of Myotis Septentrionalis in Northeastern Iowa Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Deer Recruitment in Wisconsin: New Estimation Methods Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Dispersal of Vertebrates Among Islands in a Riverine Ecosystem Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Effects of Distance from Water Control Structures on Furbearer Detection on Track Plates in Crex Meadows Wildlife Area, Grantsburg, Wisconsin Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Environmental Variables Influencing Raccoon Exposure to Parvovirus in Wisconsin Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Impacts of Extreme Conditions on White-tailed Deer Antlers Using Harvested and Naturally Cast Antler Metrics Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Incorporating Detection Probability into Northern Great Plains Pronghorn Population Estimates Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Influence of Body Size and Sex on Ectoparasite Loads in Southern Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys Volans) Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Influence of Habitat and Intrinsic Characteristics on Survival of Neonatal Pronghorn Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Roosting Habits of the Northern Long-eared Bat (Myotis Septentrionalis) in a Managed Forest Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Seasonal Home Ranges, Movements, and Habitat Selection of Female Elk in Northwestern Minnesota Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Summer Roost Selection of Four Myotis Species in the Pine Ridge Region of Western Nebraska Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. The Northeast Climate Science Center: Improving the Way Climate Science Informs Resource Management Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. The Role of Habitat Size and Quality on Presence and Abundance of Small Arvicoline Rodents in Northeast Iowa Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Timber Harvest Techniques on the Bat Community in a Midwestern Hardwood Forest: Occupancy Analyses Using Bio-acoustics Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Urban Bat Community Composition Along a Rural-Urban Gradient Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Using Citizen Science to Monitor Carnivores in Nebraska Lancaster Ballroom

8:00am CST

Technical Session. Double Observer Evaluation of Pronghorn Aerial Line Transect Surveys Grand Ballroom C

8:20am CST

Technical Session. Assessing Calf Survival and Cause-specific Mortality in the Declining Moose Population in Northeastern Minnesota Grand Ballroom C Technical Session. Nightly Summer Activity Patterns of the Northern Long-eared Bat Arbor I/II

8:40am CST

Technical Session. Roosting Habits of the Eastern Small-footed Bat in the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois Arbor I/II

9:00am CST

Technical Session. Comparison of Adult Urban and Rural White-tailed Deer Home Range Size in Southern Indiana Grand Ballroom C Technical Session. Estimating the Summer Distribution of a Threatened Bat Species in Nebraska Arbor I/II

9:20am CST

Technical Session. Comparisons of Dispersal and Excursion Events Between Localized Populations of Urban and Rural White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Grand Ballroom C Technical Session. Determining the Habitat Use of Nebraska Bats: What Scale Is Best? Arbor I/II Technical Session. Using prey biomass estimates to assess habitat suitability for large African carnivores in a potential corridor region of Northwestern Botswana Hawthorne

9:40am CST

Technical Session. Dispersal of Yearling Male White-tailed Deer in Wisconsin Grand Ballroom C Technical Session. Spatial and Temporal Structure of Canid Community in Nebraska Hawthorne

10:20am CST

Technical Session. Post-mortem RNA Degradation in White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Westcentral Illinois Grand Ballroom C

10:40am CST

Technical Session. RNA-Seq Based Transcriptome Analysis of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Grand Ballroom C

11:00am CST

Technical Session. Influence of Ecologic Factors on Prevalence of Meningeal Worm Infection in South Dakota, USA Grand Ballroom C