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7:00am EDT

Directors' Breakfast (invitation only) - Sponsored by National Wild Turkey Federation Seasons Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors Green Mountain Ballroom Conference Registration Desk Open Hotel Lobby Speaker Preparation Room Burlington Conference Room Exhibits Open Green Mountain Ballroom

8:00am EDT

Plenary Session and Awards Presentation Adirondack Ballroom

10:30am EDT

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Green Mountain Ballroom

12:00pm EDT

Lunch on your own N/A Take a Student to Lunch! Offsite - Meet in Hotel Lobby

1:00pm EDT

Northeast Wildlife Administrators Association Meeting Montpelier C

1:40pm EDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Hydroacoustic Surveys of the Pelagic Fish Community in Lake Champlain Adirondack D SYMPOSIA-02: A New Freshwater Mussel Collaborative in the Northeast Vermont B SYMPOSIA-03: Monitoring montane bird populations with data from the citizen science program, Mountain Birdwatch Vermont A SYMPOSIA-05: Threats and Uncertainties Facing Fragmented New England Cottontail Metapopulations Montpelier A&B (CANCELLED) FURBEARER MANAGEMENT: The Effects of Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) Predator Scent on Winter Burrow Use by Eastern Cottontail Rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) Adirondack A (CANCELLED) BIRD CONSERVATION Effects of Nest Building Behavior on Incubation and Reproductive Success in Carolina Chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) Adirondack B/C LAW ENFORCEMENT: Vermont Deer Poaching Analysis 2011-2017 Lake Champlain B OUTREACH & EDUCATION 1: Outreach Techniques for Scientists and Science Communicators Lake Champlain A CONCURRENT TECHNICAL SESSIONS & SYMPOSIA Multiple Locations

2:00pm EDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Recent Advances in Broadband Echosounders and Applications to Fisheries Adirondack D SYMPOSIA-02: The Effect of Probiotics on the Growth and Survival of a Freshwater Mussel Vermont B SYMPOSIA-03: Black Bear Research and Management in New York with ISeeMammals, a Citizen Science Initiative Vermont A SYMPOSIA-05: Competition Alters Seasonal Resource Selection and Promotes Use of Invasive Shrubs by an Imperiled Native Cottontail Montpelier A&B FURBEARER MANAGEMENT: Ecology, Home Range, and Habitat Selection of Striped Skunks (Mephitis mephitis) and Raccoons (Procyon lotor) Relative to Oral Rabies Vaccine Baits in Urban-Suburban Burlington, VT Adirondack A BIRD CONSERVATION Assessing Owl Collisions with U.S. Civil and U.S. Air Force Aircraft Adirondack B/C Northeast R3 Initiative Seasons

2:20pm EDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Side-Looking Hydroacoustics in a Large Tidal River During Restoration Activities Adirondack D SYMPOSIA-02: Out of Harm’s Way: Caging Freshwater Mussels on the Lower Grasse River Vermont B SYMPOSIA-03: Monitoring introduced eastern cottontails and the threat to recovery of the native New England cottontail in New Hampshire. Vermont A SYMPOSIA-05: A Survey of the Parasites of Native and Introduced Cottontails and Their Habitat in the Lower Hudson Valley Montpelier A&B FURBEARER MANAGEMENT: Community Outcomes of Intraguild Interactions Among Mesocarnivores Vary Across Environmental Gradients Adirondack A BIRD CONSERVATION Does Wintering and Breeding Habitat Quality Influence Migratory Birds Throughout Their Full Annual Cycle? Adirondack B/C

2:30pm EDT

Ice Cream Social & Refreshment Break - Sponsored by Ben and Jerry's Green Mountain Ballroom

2:40pm EDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Using Indices to Quantify Spatial Patterns of Fish in Hydroacoustic Data for Management at Marine Renewable Energy Sites Adirondack D SYMPOSIA-03: Engaging the Public in Ground Truthing Wildlife Road Crossing Sites, The WildPaths iNaturalist Project Vermont A

3:20pm EDT

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Your PT Program: Building More than Muscle Lake Champlain B OUTREACH & EDUCATION 1: But All the Cool Kids Are Doing It Lake Champlain A SYMPOSIA-01: Evaluating the Potential for Fish Entrainment at a Deep-water Intake Adirondack D SYMPOSIA-02: Brook Floater (Alasmidonta varicosa) Mesohabitat Preference in Four Massachusetts Watersheds Vermont B SYMPOSIA-05: Immunogenetic variation and potential pathogens of New England’s cottontails Montpelier A&B FURBEARER MANAGEMENT: Assessing the Probability of River Otter Occupancy in Central New York State Adirondack A BIRD CONSERVATION Machine Learning Mitigation of False Positives in Automated Acoustic Wildlife Monitoring with the R Package AMMonitoR Adirondack B/C SYMPOSIA-04: Engaging Southern Vermont Woodland Owners in Stewardship with Wildlife in Mind Vermont A

3:40pm EDT

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Restorative Justice & Conservation Law Enforcement Lake Champlain B SYMPOSIA-01: Hydroacoustic Monitoring of Emigrating Juvenile American Shad at the Vernon Hydroelectric Project on the Connecticut River Adirondack D SYMPOSIA-02: A Standardized Rapid Survey Protocol for Rare Freshwater Mussels Using an Occupancy Framework Vermont B SYMPOSIA-05: Captivity and an island: Lessons learned from New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) captive and island breeding to support translocations Montpelier A&B FURBEARER MANAGEMENT: Monitoring Canine Parvovirus (CPV) Prevalence in Mesocarnivore of Southwestern Vermont Populations Through Scat Analysis Adirondack A BIRD CONSERVATION Tracking Prairie Warblers During the Non-breeding Season Using Light-level Geolocators Adirondack B/C OUTREACH & EDUCATION 1: Branding Your Agency Lake Champlain A

4:00pm EDT

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Engine Cut off Device Technology & Safety for Marine Law Enforcment Officers Lake Champlain B SYMPOSIA-01: Using Side Scan Sonar to Detect Lobster Pots in Simple and Complex Habitats Adirondack D SYMPOSIA-02: Freshwater Mussel Species Distribution Models to Inform Proactive Conservation Decision Making Vermont B SYMPOSIA-05: Monitoring and predicting response of New England cottontail populations to management Montpelier A&B FURBEARER MANAGEMENT: A Review of Genetic Studies of the North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) Adirondack A BIRD CONSERVATION Use of Miniaturized GPS Tags to Study Breeding Season Habitat Use and Migration in Threatened Adirondack B/C

4:20pm EDT

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Intelligence Driven Marine Resource Policing: NOAA Fisheries-Office of Law Enforcement and the United States Coast Guard Lake Champlain B OUTREACH & EDUCATION 1: Fishbook Live! Lake Champlain A SYMPOSIA-01: Evaluating Lake Sturgeon Habitat in a Hydropower Tailrace Adirondack D SYMPOSIA-05: A Structured Decision-Making Approach to Range-wide Monitoring of the New England Cottontail Montpelier A&B FURBEARER MANAGEMENT: Local Adaptation in a Generalist Species: Examining Genomic Diversity in Bobcats Adirondack A SYMPOSIA-02: Open Discussion: Freshwater Mussel Conservation Needs and Opportunities Vermont B

4:40pm EDT

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Operation Game Thief Trailer Lake Champlain B OUTREACH & EDUCATION 1: Telling Compelling Stories Through the Use of Social Media Lake Champlain A SYMPOSIA-01: Use of a DIDSON to Image and Estimate Numbers of Shortnose Sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) Using Winter Habitat in the Penobscot River, ME Adirondack D SYMPOSIA-05: Panel Discussion Montpelier A&B FURBEARER MANAGEMENT: Applied Ecology and Conservation Genetics in Support of the Management of Bobcat (Lynx rufus) in Rhode Island Adirondack A

5:00pm EDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Estimating Abundance of Spawning Lake Sturgeon in the Winooski River, VT Using Dual-Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) Adirondack D NE Section of TWS General Meeting & Reception Seasons Northeast Information & Education Meeting Offsite - Skinny Pancake Poster Social Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction

5:30pm EDT

POSTER: Abundance and Egg Guarding Patterns of Red-backed Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Analyzing the Effect of Herbivory on Pin Oak Growth Rates in Kentuck Forest at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Bringing Together Practitioners: The Massachusetts Ecosystem Climate Adaptation Network (Mass ECAN) Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Collaborative Acoustic Telemetry Studies in Lake Champlain Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Comparing Bird Communities in Transmission Line Rights-of-Way Dominated by Native Shrubs or by a Mixture of Native and Non-Native Shrubs in Maine and New Hampshire: Preliminary Results from 2017 Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Comparing the Use of Transmission Line Rights-of-Way Managed by Mechanical Mowing or Selective Herbicide Treatment by Shrubland-Dependent and Mature-Forest-Dependent Songbirds in Maine and New Hampshire... Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Effects of Artificial Lighting on the Avian Circadian Rhythm at Night Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Environmental and Temporal Variables Contribute to DNA Degradation in White-tailed Deer Blood Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Exploring Potential Microscopic Changes to the Shell and Mantle of Deformed Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae and Margaritiferidae) from Massachusetts Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Exploring the Relationship Between Fishing Regulations and Angler Compliance in Virginia Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Gene Expression Analysis of Cisco (Coregonus artedi) Eggs and Larvae Reared in Varying Light Treatments Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Influence of Off-road Vehicle Trails on Small Mammal Community Structure and Bat Activity in Western Maryland Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: K-1 STEM Education: Strategies Promoting Environmental Literacy Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Nature's Network: Lands and Waters Sustaining Wildlife and People from Maine to Virginia Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Population Structure and Dispersal of Prairie Warblers in Southern Maine and New Hampshire Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Predicting the Probability of Northern Saw-whet Owls in the Highlands of West Virginia Using GIS, Spatial Data, and Machine Learning Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Quantifying Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Annual Productivity Utilizing Camera Trap Methodologies in Connecticut, USA Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Recovery Efforts for Spiny Softshell Turtles in Lake Champlain Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Scott Pond Dam Salmon Jump Pool Improvement: Improving Passage for Lake Champlain Steelhead and Atlantic Salmon, While Excluding Sea Lamprey Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Shrubland Bird Occupancy on New England Cottontail Managed Sites: Exploring the Representative Species Concept Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Space Use and Microhabitat Associations of the Southern Red-Backed Vole (Myodes gapperi) at the Bartlett Experimental Forest, New Hampshire Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: The Schoolyard Habitat Program: An Opportunity to Connect Students with Nature and Restore Habitat Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for Waterfowl Surveys Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: USFWS Fish Passage Engineering Design Criteria Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Vehicle Mounting the Coda Netlauncher® to Capture Gulls at a Landfill Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction POSTER: Working Together for Healthy Streams: The US FWS National Fish Passage Program Adirondack Ballroom Prefunction

6:30pm EDT

Dinner at ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain - Sponsored by Johnson Mirmiran Thompson Inc. Offsite - ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain

8:45pm EDT

Burlington Beer Crawl Offsite - Depart from ECHO