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52nd Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society A Texas Parks & Wildlife biologist demonstrates to students how to sample deer for CWD on East Foundation land. Chronic Wasting Disease in Texas Whitetails…Now What? 18–20 February 2016 San Antonio, Texas 2015–2016 EXECUTIVE BOARD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DON STEINBACH PRESIDENT ROEL LOPEZ PRESIDENT ELECT RANDY DEYOUNG VICE PRESIDENT COREY MASON SECRETARY MANDY KRAUSE TREASURER TERRY BLANKENSHIP BOARD MEMBER RACHEL LANGE ARCHIVIST ALAN FEDYNICH PAST PRESIDENT DAVE HEWITT PROGRAM TYLER CAMPBELL & DEAN RANSOM LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAD GRANTHAM & LUCAS COOKSEY POSTERS KORY GANN 2 TENTATIVE MEETING SCHEDULE – 01.12.2016 Wednesday, 17 February 9:00 AM–4:00 PM Wildlife Tracking Training Workshop Executive Salon 5 Afternoon in-the-field Thursday, 18 February 8:00 AM–8:00 PM Registration Fiesta Pavilion Foyer 8:00 AM–12:00 PM Exhibitor Set-up Fiesta Pavilion 8:00 AM–12:00 PM Media Training Workshop Texas Ballroom C 8:00 AM–12:00 PM Camp Bullis Field Trip Front of Hotel Lobby 8:00 AM–12:00 PM San Antonio River Field Trip Front of Hotel Lobby 8:00 AM–12:00 PM TCTWS Executive Meeting Texas Ballroom A 8:00 AM–3:00 PM Poster Session Set-up Period Fiesta Pavilion 8:00 AM–3:00 PM Plant ID Set-up & Competition Executive Salon 4 8:00 AM–5:00 PM Texas Quiz Bowl Set-up & Competition San Antonio Ballroom 8:00 AM–9:00 PM TCTWS Office Work Space Directors Room 1 8:00 AM–9:00 PM TCTWS Meeting Space to Hold Directors Room 2 8:00 AM–9:00 PM TWA Directors Meeting Texas Ballroom B 12:00 PM–10:00 PM Exhibits – Breaks Fiesta Pavilion 1:00 PM–3:00 PM TCTWS Business Meeting Texas Ballroom A 1:00 PM–6:00 PM Presentation Submissions Directors Room 1 1:00 PM–7:00 PM Submit for Art & Photo Contest Fiesta Pavilion 1:00 PM–7:00 PM Raffle & Silent Auction Fiesta Pavilion 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Poster Session Judging Fiesta Pavilion 6:00 PM–7:00 PM Student Mentor Mixer Fiesta Pavilion 6:00 PM–10:00 PM President’s Reception Fiesta Pavilion Friday, 19 February 6:30 AM–8:00 AM Student Breakfast Fiesta Pavilion 7:30 AM–5:00 PM Raffle & Silent Auction Fiesta Pavilion 7:30 AM–5:00 PM Registration Fiesta Pavilion Foyer 7:30 AM–10:00 AM Submit for Art & Photo Contest Fiesta Pavilion 7:30 AM–10:00 PM Exhibits – Breaks Fiesta Pavilion 8:00 AM–9:00 PM TCTWS Office Work Space Directors Room 1 8:00 AM–9:00 PM TCTWS Meeting Space to Hold Directors Room 2 8:00 AM–10:00 PM Presentation Submissions Directors Room 1 8:00 AM–10:00 PM Posters Up Fiesta Pavilion 8:00 AM–10:00 AM Plenary Session Texas Ballroom A, B & C 10:00 AM–10:30 AM Break Texas Ballroom Foyer 10:30 AM–4:00 PM Voting for Art & Photo Contest Fiesta Pavilion 10:30 AM–12:30 PM Cottam Award Papers Texas Ballroom A, B & C 12:30 PM–1:45 PM Past President’s Luncheon Executive Salon 3 12:30 PM–1:45 PM Lunch – On Your Own 3 Friday, 19 February (Continued) 1:45 PM–3:15 PM Concurrent Technical Sessions Texas Ballroom A, B, C, Executive Salon 4, 5, and San Antonio Ballroom 3:15 PM–3:45 PM Break Fiesta Pavilion 3:45 PM–5:00 PM Concurrent Technical Sessions Texas Ballroom A, B, C, Executive Salon 4, and San Antonio Ballroom 5:30 PM–6:30 PM Awards Ceremony Texas Ballroom A, B & C 6:30 PM–10:00 PM Awards Reception Fiesta Pavilion Saturday, 20 February 7:00 AM–7:45 AM Fellowship of Christian Conservationists Yet to be determined 7:30 AM–11:00 AM Registration Fiesta Pavilion Foyer 8:00 AM–11:30 AM Exhibits – Breaks Fiesta Pavilion 8:00 AM–10:00 AM Posters Taken Down Fiesta Pavilion 8:00 AM–12:00 PM TCTWS Office Work Space Directors Room 1 8:00 AM–9:30 AM Concurrent Technical Sessions Texas Ballroom A, B, C, Executive Salon 4, and San Antonio Ballroom 9:00 AM–11:00 PM TCTWS Executive Meeting Directors Room 2 9:30 AM–10:00 AM Break Fiesta Pavilion 10:00 AM–11:30 AM Concurrent Technical Sessions Texas Ballroom A, B, and San Antonio Ballroom 12:00 PM Adjourn 52nd Annual Meeting PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS (Need to develop this area, if appropriate) 4 WYNDHAM – SAN ANTONIO RIVERWALK 111 EAST PECAN STREET SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78205 5 Friday, 19 February 2016 PLENARY SESSION TEXAS BALLROOM A, B & C MODERATOR: TYLER A. CAMPBELL 8:00 Presentation of Colors 8:05 Welcome & Introduction – Roel Lopez, President, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society 8:20 Chronic Wasting Disease 101 – Walt Cook, Clinical Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University 8:40 Status Report from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department – Clayton Wolf, Wildlife Division Director, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department 8:50 Status Report from the Texas Animal Health Commission – Andy Schwartz, Assistant Executive Director, Epidemiology & Laboratory Systems, Texas Animal Health Commission 9:00 Lessons Learned from Outside the Lone Star State – Michael Miller, Wildlife Veterinarian, Colorado Division of Wildlife 9:20 Panel Discussion & Questions/Answers – All the Above, plus Dan McBride (Burnet Veterinary Clinic, Inc.), Tom Vandivier (Conservationist and Private Landowner) & Don Davis (Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University – Moderator for Discussion) 10:00 Break – 30 minutes CLARENCE COTTAM AWARD COMPETITION TEXAS BALLROOM A, B & C MODERATOR: ALFONSO ORTEGA-SANCHEZ, JR. 10:30 Waste rice and natural seed densities in rice fields in the Gulf Coast Prairies of Louisiana and Texas, Joseph R. Marty, J. Brian Davis, Richard M. Kaminski, and Michael G. Brasher 10:45 The influence of weather parameters on Lesser Prairie-Chicken range wide nest survival, Alixandra J. Godar, Blake A. Grisham, Cody P. Griffin, Sarah R. Fritts, Clint W. Boal, David A. Haukos, Jim C. Pitman, Christian A. Hagen, and Michael A. Patten 11:00 Scale-dependent landscape genetics of bobcats across western Texas, Imogene Davis 11:15 Factors influencing listing decisions under the Endangered Species Act, Kathryn N. Smith-Hicks 11:30 Spatial ecology of the Lower Colorado River Valley population of Greater Sandhill Cranes, Courtenay M. Conring, Blake A. Grisham, Daniel P. Collins, and Warren C. Conway 11:45 Next generation sequencing used to assess diversity within major histocompatibility complex of ocelots, John P. Leonard, Michael E. Tewes, Randall W. DeYoung, Jan E. Janecka, Tyler A. Campbell, and Arturo Caso 12:00 Dietary niche partitioning among cattle, deer, and nilgai using stable isotopes, Stacy L. Hines, Timothy E. Fulbright, J. Alfonso Ortega-S., David G. Hewitt, Thomas W. Boutton, and Alfonso Ortega-S., Jr. 6 12:15 Duck and stock pond forage resource relationships in the Rolling Plains of Texas, Lisa A. Clark, Samantha S. Kahl, Blake A. Grisham, and Dan Collins SESSION 1A: BIG GAME ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT TEXAS BALLROOM B MODERATOR: 1:45 Browse species responses to white-tailed deer densities in South Texas, Justin P. Young, Timothy E. Fulbright, David G. Hewitt, Charles A. DeYoung, Kim N. Echols, and Don A. Draeger 2:00 Does supplemental feeding mitigate the impacts of high deer densities on plant communities and available forage?, Lindsay D. Roberts, Timothy E. Fulbright, David B. Wester, David G. Hewitt, Charles A. DeYoung, Kim N. Echols, and Don A. Draeger 2:15 Effects of differing white-tailed deer and supplemental feeder densities on woody plant canopy volume and mast production, Lindsey M. Phillips, Timothy E. Fulbright, David G. Hewitt, Charles A. DeYoung, Lindsay D. Roberts, David B. Wester, Kim N. Echols, and Don A. Draeger 2:30 Drought and density effects on palatable forb species for white-tailed deer, Ashley A. Wilson, Lindsay D. Roberts, Timothy E. Fulbright, David G. Hewitt, Charles A. DeYoung, David B. Wester, Kim N. Echols, and Don A. Draeger 2:45 Translocated pronghorn adult and fawn survival in New Mexico, Emily R. Conant, Mark C. Wallace, Warren C. Conway, Stewart G. Liley, and Ryan L. Darr 3:00 Mortality Factors and the importance of age in translocated pronghorn, Taylor O. Garrison, Louis A. Harveson, Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Patricia M. Harveson, and Shawn S. Gray 3:15 Break – 30 Minutes SESSION 1B: ECOLOGY OF MAMMALIAN CARNIVORES EXECUTIVE SALON 4 MODERATOR: 1:45 Distribution and habitat selection by large carnivores in Big Bend National Park, Texas, Skyler Stevens, Catherine Dennision, Michael Stangl, Raymond Skiles, and Patricia M. Harveson 2:00 Home range size, movements and survival of mountain lions on private lands in West Texas, Catherine C. Dennison, Patricia M. Harveson, Bert Geary, and Louis A. Harveson 2:15 Food habits of mountain lions in the Davis Mountains, Texas, Catherine C. Dennison, Bert Geary, Patricia M. Harveson, Louis A. Harveson, and Dana Milani 2:30 Spatial and temporal use of Big Bend National Park by humans and puma, David P. Rumbelow, Patricia M. Harveson, Louis A. Harveson, Bert Geary, and Catherine Dennison 2:45 Determining impacts of diel cycle and lunar illumination on mountain lion hunting behaviors using kill site data, Kendall J. AuBuchon, Mark Elbroch, Floyd W. Weckerly, and Thomas R. Simpson 7 3:00 Effects of genetic depletion on estimating risk of extinction of the endangered Florida panther, Anna Cole, Kelsea Anthony, Chris Chen, Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, Tomasz E. Koralewski, and William E. Grant 3:15 Break – 30 Minutes SESSION 1C: ECOLOGY OF UPLAND GAME BIRDS SAN ANTONIO BALLROOM MODERATOR: 1:45 Northern bobwhite resource selection in South Texas, Benjamin R.