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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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1:40pm CST

Technical Session. Home range use and survival of southern flying squirrels in fragmented landscapes Hawthorne

2:20pm CST

Technical Session. Combining Weather Data and Climate Projections: A Case Study with Lesser Prairie-Chickens Grand Ballroom D

2:40pm CST

Technical Session. Selection and Demographic Consequences of Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands for Lesser Prairie-Chickens Grand Ballroom B

4:20pm CST

Technical Session. Variations in Annual Ring-necked Pheasant Survival in Southwest Nebraska Grand Ballroom B

8:00am CST

Technical Session. Population Dynamics and Precision of Age Structures of Black Crappie in North Cross Lake, Manitoba, CA Grand Ballroom B

9:20am CST

Technical Session. Origin and Movement Patterns of Channel Catfish Within a Large-river Network: An Otolith Microchemistry Approach Grand Ballroom C

9:40am CST

Technical Session. Modeling Transition Rates of Sandhill Cranes Using a Multi-state Model and Estimating Population Trends with N-mixture Models Grand Ballroom D

10:40am CST

Technical Session. Population Dynamics of Flathead Catfish in Lake Mitchell, South Dakota Grand Ballroom B

11:00am CST

Technical Session. Effects of Competition, Predation, and Environment on Recruitment of a Pelagic Forage Fish, Lake Herring Coregonus Artedi, in a Missouri River Reservoir Grand Ballroom B Technical Session. Elucidating Mechanisms Structuring Crappie Recruitment in the Middle Mississippi River Grand Ballroom C Technical Session. Wintering Ecology of Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) in the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area Grand Ballroom D

11:20am CST

Technical Session. Influence of Hydrologic Conditions on the Short-term Growth of Minnesota River Fishes Grand Ballroom C Technical Session. Movement and Survival (initial and Short-term) of Stocked Yearling Muskellunge in Spirit Lake, Iowa Grand Ballroom B

11:40am CST

Technical Session. Biology and Potential Community Influences of Tadpole Madtoms and Stonecats in the Minnesota River Grand Ballroom C

2:20pm CST

Technical Session. Freezing and Flooding: Factors Affecting Centrarchid Sportfish Populations in the Lower Illinois River Grand Ballroom C

3:40pm CST

Technical Session. Evaluating Fall Harvests with Practicable Wild Turkey Management Models: Incorporating Observation Uncertainty and Regulation Cycle 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. Assessment of Painted Turtle Age and Size from Long-term Pond Study Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Common Snapping Turtle Monitoring and Assessment in Illinois Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Exploitation of Paddlefish in the Mississippi River 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. Light Traps Provide Insight About age-0 Fish Use of Restored Shorezone Areas in the St. Clair River Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Population Structure Analysis of Western Painted Turtles Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Sampling Characteristics of Egg Mats Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Seasonal Dynamics of Blue Suckers Cycleptus Elongatus Inhabiting Great-river Tributaries in Missouri Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. The Benthic Invertebrate Communities of Northern Lake Michigan’s Cladophora “graveyards” Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. The Northeast Climate Science Center: Improving the Way Climate Science Informs Resource Management Lancaster Ballroom Poster Display. Vegetation Diversity and Connectedness in Ditches Across Northwest Ohio Lancaster Ballroom

8:00am CST

Technical Session. Examination of Pallid Sturgeon Life-history Characteristics Throughout the Missouri River Basin Grand Ballroom D

8:20am CST

Technical Session. Assessing Calf Survival and Cause-specific Mortality in the Declining Moose Population in Northeastern Minnesota Grand Ballroom C

8:40am CST

Technical Session. Diel Horizontal Migration of Small-bodied Fishes in Lake Michigan Grand Ballroom A Technical Session. Evaluating home range size of bobcats in an agriculturally-dominated landscape of west central Illinois Hawthorne

9:00am CST

Technical Session. Estimation of Distribution and Abundance of the Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana Hawthorne Technical Session. Population Demographics of Shovelnose Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) in the Wabash River Grand Ballroom D

9:40am CST

Technical Session. A Novel Approach for Assessing Paddlefish Populations Using Mark-Recapture Information Grand Ballroom D

11:00am CST

Technical Session. Effects of Habitat Heterogeneity on Survival and Movements of Fledgling Dickcissels Grand Ballroom B