FRIDAY
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6:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. — BREAKFAST
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7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. — Registration in Northland Prefunction Area
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7:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and 3:00. p.m. - 6:00 p.m. — Retail Sales in Northland Prefunction Area
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8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. — Exhibits in Northland Prefunction Area and Poster Displays in Minnesota Ballroom
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8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. — WELCOME REMARKS and Survey, Grant Spickelmier, Judy Hunter and Debbie Hinchcliffe
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8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. — PLENARY PANEL- Reducing Wolf Populations: Exploring Motivations, Methods, Efficacy and Alternatives - Robert Serrouya, Barbara Zimmermann and Rod Boertje - Moderator: Brent Patterson
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9:45-10:00 — BREAK
ELM CREEK
WOLF ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR
AND GENETICS
Explaining Wolves’ Consumption Time at Own Kills and Other Food Sources
Erik Versluijs
Of Wolves and Polar Bears: A Citizen-Science Field Investigation of Wolf-Bear Interactions in the Arctic
Jad Davenport
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wolf Predation on Eurasian Beavers in Central Europe
Robert Myslajek
HENNEPIN I
WOLF ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR
AND GENETICS
Between a Risk and a Hard Place: Scavenging Patterns and Habitat Selection of Carnivores in the Subarctic
Kaija Klauder
Parasitic Infection in Gray Wolves Changes Risk-Taking Behavior
Kira Cassidy
Gray Wolves Reduce Parelaphostrongulus tenuis Transmission Risk from White-Tailed Deer to Moose
Tiffany Wolf
HENNEPIN II
WOLF-HUMAN
INTERACTIONS
Exploitative Competition Between Wolves and Humans: How Does Wolf Scent Affect Behavior of Naïve and Experienced Deer at Hunter Bait Sites?
Ellen Candler
Wolf Responses to Experimental Human Approach Trials: First Results from a Standardized Protocol
Ane Eriksen
Reproductive Success of Wisconsin Wolves Following a Hunting Season During the Breeding Season
Erik Olson
HENNEPIN III
WOLF MANAGEMENT
AND POLICY
Recent Trends in Survival and Mortality of Wolves in Minnesota
Stotra Chakrabarti
February 2021 Wolf Hunt in Wisconsin: The Policies, Politics and Consequences of a Rushed Hunt during the Wolf Breeding Season
Adrian Wydeven
Whose Wildlife Values Count? The Push for Transforming Wildlife Governance
Walter Medwid
ARBOR LAKES
CONFLICT
MANAGEMENT
Place-Based Collaboratives for Minimizing Human-Carnivore Conflict: Collective Factors Driving Success Throughout the American West
Matt Collins
Wood River Wolf Project: 15 Years of Coexistence In Idaho’s Mountainous Backcountry
Suzanne Asha Stone
Wolf Damage Management in Minnesota
John Hart
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11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. — LUNCH in the Northland Ballroom
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12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. — PLENARY PANEL- Regional Recovery Updates: Jorge Servin, John Oakleaf, Kim Wheeler, Eric Odell and Kevin Crooks - Moderator: Dean Cluff
ELM CREEK
WOLF ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR
AND GENETICS
Spontaneous Howling Behavior of Wild Wolves Around Rendezvous Sites
Vicente Palacios
Were You Raised By Wolves? Or Rather, Where Were You Raised By Wolves? An Analysis of Homesite Selection in Northern Minnesota
Lucas Beck
HENNEPIN I
WOLF ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR
AND GENETICS
A Genomic Perspective on Red Wolf Hybridization, Inbreeding, and Adaptive Management in the North Carolina Wild Population
Kristin Breszski
Sea Otter Reintroduction Unexpectedly Releases Wolves from Ungulate Dependence Transforming Terrestrial Predator-Prey Dynamics
Gretchen Roffler
HENNEPIN II
EDUCATION
Creating Successful Collaboration for International Wolf Conservation
Catherine Frizat
Deflating Myths about Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) in the Midwest, USA: A Unifying Curriculum Project
Jordyn O’Gara
HENNEPIN III
RECOVERY UPDATES
Social-Ecological Scientific Insights into Colorado Wolf Restoration
Kevin Crooks
Planning for the Reintroduction of Wolves to Colorado
Eric Odell
ARBOR LAKES
WOLF-HUMAN INTERACTIONS
Resource Exploitation Efficiency Collapses the Home Range of an Apex Predator
Robert Serrouya
Demographics of Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Packs Recolonizing Variable Habitat Types in Central Wisconsin
Theresa Simpson
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3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. — BREAK
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3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. — PLENARY — A History of Denali National Park Wolf Studies: Bridget Borg - Introduction: Sabina Nowak
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4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. — Poster Session Q & A and Social Hour with Cash Bar Minnesota Ballroom
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6:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. — BUFFET DINNER in the Great Room
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7:30 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. — PLENARY — Pleistocene Paleoecology of the North American Gray Wolf: Dr. Blaire Van Valkenburgh - Introduction: Dick Thiel
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8:15 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. — PLENARY — The Role of Elderly Wolves: Kira Cassidy - Introduction: Dick Thiel