56th Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society @East Foundation Outdoor Education to Develop Engaged Wildlife Professionals 13–15 February 2020 Corpus Christi, Texas 2019–2020 Executive Board Executive Director Don Steinbach President Tyler Campbell President-elect John Tomeček Vice President Romey Swanson Past President Jena Moon Secretary Whitney Gann Treasurer Jon Purvis Board Member-at-Large Michelle Haggerty Archivist Alan Fedynich Program Cristy Burch, Blake Grisham, Andrea Montalvo, and Landon Schofield Local Arrangements Mary Pearl Meuth and Todd Snelgrove Posters Heather Mathewson 2 Venue Layout 3 4 Meeting Schedule Thursday, 13 February 2020 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM Workshop – Working Effectively with Landowners Room 103 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Workshop – Media Training Room 106 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Workshop – R and R Studio for Beginners Room 105 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM Poster Session I Setup Watergarden 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Watergarden 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Workshop – TBGA Official Scorer Certification Room 104 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM Workshop –Nature Photography 101 Oso Bay Wetland Preserve 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Workshop – Wildlife Acoustics: Bird and Land Animals Room 107 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Executive Board Meeting Room 101 & 102 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Workshop – Wildlife Acoustics: Bats Room 107 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Workshop –TCTWS Hunting Mentor Training Room 105 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM James G. Teer Leadership Institute Room 106 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Student Plant ID Contest Room 225 A&B 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM TCTWS Business Meeting Room 101 & 102 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Quiz Bowl Room 227 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Poster Session I Judging Watergarden 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM James Teer Reception Room 103 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM Presidents Reception and Student Mentor Mixer Watergarden A 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM East Foundation Reception Rotunda 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM Texas Tech Alumni Reception Room 101 Friday, 14 February 2020 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Student Breakfast Rotunda 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Women of Wildlife Reception Room 101 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM Professional Plant ID Contest Room 225 A&B 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Watergarden 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Presentation Submission Session Rooms 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Raffle and Silent Auction Watergarden 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Workshop – Common Plants of the Rio Grande Plains Room 102 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM James G. Teer Leadership Institute Room 103 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Art and Photo Contest Submission Watergarden 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM Break Watergarden 9:10 AM – 11:40 AM Cottam Award Presentations Henry Garrett Ballroom 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM Voting for Photo and Art Contest Watergarden 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch (On Your Own) 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Student Chapter Leadership (Invitation Only) Rotunda 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Past-Presidents Luncheon (Invitation Only) Room 101 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Conservation Affairs Committee Room 104 5 1:40 PM – 3:00 PM Plenary Session Henry Garrett Ballroom 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Break Watergarden 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Poster Session I Removal Watergarden 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Ecology and Management of Quail Room 225C 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Avian Ecology and Management 1 Room 225B 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Conservation and Ecology of Mammals 1 Room 227 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Vegetation and Habitat Management Room 226 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM New Technologies and Applications Room 225A 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Amphibians and Reptiles Room 225E 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Exotic and Invasive Species Room 225D 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Poster Session II Setup Watergarden 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Art and Photo Contest Pick-up Watergarden 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Awards Ceremony Henry Garrett Ballroom 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM Awards Reception and Networking Event Watergarden Saturday, 15 February 2020 7:00 AM – 7:30 AM Fellowship of Christian Conservationists Rotunda 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Registration Watergarden 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Avian Ecology and Management 2 Room 227 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Big Game Ecology Room 225C 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Vertebrate Response to Habitat Management Room 226 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Education Room 225E 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM Poster Session II Watergarden 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM James G. Teer Leadership Institute Room 103 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM Executive Board Meeting Room 101&102 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Break Watergarden 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Avian Ecology and Management 3 Room 227 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Conservation and Ecology of Mammals 2 Room 225C 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Occupational Planning and Policy Room 225E 11:30 AM Poster Session II Removal Watergarden 11:30 AM Adjourn 6 Friday, 14 February 2020 Clarence Cottam Award Competition Henry Garrett Ballroom Moderators: Forrest Cobb and Cord Eversole 9:10 Meeting Welcome and Introduction, Tyler Campbell 9:15 Cottam Competition Introduction, Forrest Cobb 9:20 Identifying Landscape Predictors of Ocelot Road Mortality to Support Mitigation, Greta Schmidt; Rebecca Lewison; Hilary Swarts 9:40 Season of Burn Effects on Composition of Forage Standing Crop in Gulf Cordgrass Communities, J. Silverio Avila Sanchez; Victoria L. Haynes; Sandra Rideout-Hanzak; David B. Wester; J. Alfonso Ortega-S; Tyler A. Campbell 10:00 Co-Occurrence of Bobcats, Coyotes, and Ocelots in Texas, Jason V. Lombardi; Darryl I. MacKenzie; Michael E. Tewes; Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso; Jose M. Mata; Tyler A. Campbell 10:20 Landscape Connectivity for Lesser Prairie-Chickens on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, Lucas J. Schilder; Lucas J. Heintzman; Nancy E. McIntyre; Samuel Harryman; Christian A. Hagen; Russell Martin; Clint W. Boal; Blake A. Grisham 10:40 Forage Standing Crop Estimation From Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Semi-Arid Rangelands, Alexandria M. DiMaggio; Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso; J. Alfonso Ortega-S; Chase Walther; Karelys N. Labrador-Rodriguez; Michael T. Page; Jose De La Luz Martinez; Sandra Rideout-Hanzak; Brent C. Hedquist; David B. Wester 11:00 Montezuma Quail Populations Are Losing Future Adaptive Potential Due to Ongoing Genomic Erosion, Samarth Mathur; James Andrew DeWoody 11:20 Behavior and Dispersal Characteristics of a Large, Unharassed Coyote Population, Justin T. French; Hsiao-Hsuan "Rose" Wang; William E. Grant; Nova J. Silvy; Tyler A. Campbell; John M. Tomeĉek 7 Plenary Session Outdoor Education to Develop Engaged Wildlife Professionals Henry Garrett Ballroom Moderator: Blake Grisham 1:40 Welcome to Corpus Christi, The Honorable Lois Kolkhorst, District 18, Texas 1:50 Project WILD and You, Lari Jo W. Edwards 2:05 On A Wing and a Cadence: The Texas Brigades’ Odyssey, Dale Rollins 2:20 Recruiting and Engaging the Next Generation of Land Stewardship Ambassadors: East Foundation and The Witte Museum, Masi Mejia 2:35 Advantages of Field-Based Learning and Associated Challenges in the Modern Academic Setting, Warren Conway 8 Session A1: Ecology and Management of Quail Room 225C Moderator: Andrea Montalvo 3:30 Translocation of Northern Bobwhite in Central Texas, John Palarski; Heather Mathewson; Bradley W. Kubečka; T. Wayne Schwertner; Dale Rollins 3:45 Effects of Source Population and Release Strategy on Translocated Scaled Quail Reproduction, Rebekah Ruzicka; Paul F. Doherty Jr.; Dale Rollins 4:00 Population Dynamic Modeling and Effects of Harvest on Mearn's Quail, Trey E. Johnson; Carlos E. Gonzalez; Ryan S. Luna 4:15 Implementing and Evaluating a Sustainable Bobwhite Harvest Prescription, D. Abraham Woodard; Leonard A. Brennan; Fidel Hernández; Humberto L. Perotto- Baldivieso; Neal Wilkins 4:30 Comparative Habitat Use of Montezuma Quail in Texas, Kristyn G. Stewart; Fidel Hernández; Eric D. Grahmann; Leonard A. Brennan; Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso; Robert Perez 4:45 Effects of Predator Reduction on Northern Bobwhite Nest Success and Chick Survival in the Rolling Plains of Texas, Kelton Mote; Brad Dabbert; Warren Conway; Blake A. Grisham 9 Session A2: Avian Ecology and Management 1 Room 225B Moderator: Faith Hardin 3:30 A Model of Shorebird Foraging Habitat in the Laguna Madre, Mikayla M. House; Bart M. Ballard; Selma N. Glasscock; Mitchell D. Weegman; Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso 3:45 Converting Bermudagrass Pastures Into Native Grasslands To Benefit Bobwhite Quail In The Coastal Plains Ecoregion, Anthony Falk; James Muir; William Kuvlesky 4:00 Movement, Behavior, And Energy Expenditure Induce Cross-seasonal Effects In Greater White-fronted Geese, Jay A. VonBank; Stephanie A. Cunningham; Mitch D. Weegman; Paul T. Link; Kevin J. Kraai; Daniel P. Collins; Bart M. Ballard 4:15 Wetland Conservation and Use By Midcontinent Greater White-fronted Geese in Mexico, Joshua P. Vasquez; Jay A. VonBank; Jason P. Loghry; Kevin J. Kraai; Bart M. Ballard 4:30 A 20-Year Look at Areas of Importance Used By Overwintering Mid-Continent Population of Sandhill Cranes, Kathryn J. Brautigam; William P. Johnson; Daniel P. Collins; Jude R. Smith; Warren C. Conway; Owen N. Fitzsimmons; Gary L. Krapu; David A. Brandt; Aaron T. Pearse; Blake A. Grisham 4:45 Preliminary Occupancy and Nesting Success Rates of Western Burrowing Owls Utilizing Artificial Burrows in the Tularosa Basin, Sarah J. Turner; Brian L. Pierce; Francisco A. Cartaya; David L. Rizzuto; Allison S. Harvey; Krysta D. Demere; Audrey L. Holstead 10 Session B1: Conservation and Ecology of Mammals 1 Room 227 Moderator: Seth Rankins 3:30 Species Distribution Modeling in Threatened Species Using the Townsend's Big- Eared Bat, Corynorhinus townsendii townsendii as an Example Organism, Natalie Hamilton; Alexis Pence; Michael Morrison 3:45 Preliminary Analysis of Kit Fox Occupancy in the Trans-Pecos, Texas, Matt Hewitt; Patricia Moody Harveson; Dana Karelus; Louis Harveson; Russell Martin 4:00 Small Mammal Recovery Following Periods of Low Rainfall, Alexis R.