New York Chapter of
The Wildlife Society

Day 1: Thursday, March 22nd
 
 8:15 am     Registration
 9:15 am     Welcome – NYS TWS President
 9:30 am     Observations of Common Raven (Corvus corax) range expansion onto the Erie/Ontario Lake Plain of New York State

                    Sarah A. Piecuch (Sarah.Piecuch@dot.ny.gov), NYS Department of Transportation and Connie M. Adams, NYSDEC
 9:50 am     Suburban Coyote Management to Address Attacks on Domestic Pets
                    Derek Colbert (derek.s.colbert@usda.gov) and Tyler DeLisle (Tyler.D.DeLisle@usda.gov), USDA APHIS Wildlife Services
 10:10 am    The Need for Continued Monitoring After Feral Swine Elimination

                          Kathryn Long (Kathryn.K.Long@usda.gov), USDA APHIS Wildlife Services

 10:30 am   Break and Poster Session
 10:50 am   A Survey of the Parasites of Native and Introduced Cottontails and their Habitat in the Lower Hudson Valley
                    Samantha L. Mello (slmello@syr.edu), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
 11:10 am    Movement, dispersal, and population genetics of imperiled New England cottontails within New York State
                    Amanda E. Cheeseman (acheesem@syr.edu) and Jonathan B. Cohen, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
 11:30 am    A Student Chapter Highlight: SUNY Cobleskill
                    Roger Masse (masserj@cobleskill.edu), Student Chapter Adviser, SUNY Cobleskill

 11:45 am    American Woodcock Migration Ecology Collaborative Research Project
                    Steve Heerkens (steven.heerkens@dec.ny.gov), NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
 12:00 pm   Lunch to be served

 1:00 pm     Comparisons of Habitat Selection and Behaviors between Mallards and American Black Ducks in the Finger Lakes

                    Region during Winter
                    Brooke A. Morgan and Roger Masse (masserj@cobleskill.edu), SUNY Cobleskill
 2:00 pm     Break and Poster Session
 2:30 pm      Black bear research and management in New York with iSeeMammals, a citizen science project
                    Catherine Sun (cs752@cornell.edu), Cornell University
 2:50 pm     DEC’s Young Forest Initiative on Wildlife Management Areas
                    Katherine Yard (katherine.yard@dec.ny.gov), NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

 3:10 pm     Implementing the Young Forest Initiative in DEC Region 8

                          Michael Palermo (michael.palermo@dec.ny.gov),  NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

 3:30 pm     Break and Poster Session

 4:00 pm     Business Meeting

 5:00 pm     Dinner and Award Ceremony
 6:00 pm     Quiz Bowl, Raffle Drawing

 7:30 pm     Social Hour and Student Professional Mixer at Local Watering Hole
 
Day 2: Friday, March 23rd
 
 9:00 am     Registration
 9:30 am     Good Morning Introduction NYS – TWS President
 9:40 am     Translocation of raptors in New York State to manage wildlife-aircraft collisions

                          Melissa C. Malloy (Melissa.C.Malloy@usda.gov), USDA APHIS Wildlife Services

 10:00 am   Nest Box Selection and Success of Secondary Cavity-Nesting Passerines at The College at Brockport SUNY Campus,

                   Brockport, NY

                          Zac Falconer (zfalc1@brockport.edu), SUNY Brockport

 10:20 am   Habitat suitability for Muhlenberg’s (Bog) Turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii): Vegetation and soils in the Hudson

                   Housatonic Recovery Unit of New York, Connecticut, & Massachusetts

                          David MacDougall, dwmacdougall@yahoo.com

 10:40 am    Closing Statements