Midwest Wolf Stewards Conference

DRAFT 4/4/2016

Midwest Wolf Stewards Conference

April 25 -26, 2016

Cohasset, Minnesota

AGENDA

Monday, April 25th

8:00-9:00Registration

9:00-9:10Welcome - Peggy, Dan, John

9:10-9:30Current Status and Management of Wolves in Minnesota

John Erb, Minnesota Department of Natural

9:30-9:50Current Status and Management of Wolves in Wisconsin

Dave MacFarland, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

9:50-10:10Current Status and Management of Wolves in Michigan

Kevin Swanson, Michigan Department of Natural Resources

10:10-10:30Current Status and Management of Wolves in Ontario

Brent Patterson, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

10:30-10:50Break

10:50 – 11:10TBD

11:10 – 11:30Status of Gray Wolves in and Adjacent to Voyageurs National Park

Steve Windels, Voyageurs National Park

11:30 – 12:00Using Satellite Collar Data to Determine Wolf Den Location in Northern MN

Carolin Humpal, Forest Wildlife Populations & Research Group, MN DNR

12:00-1:00LUNCH

1:00-1:20Wolves hunting beaver

Tom Gable, Department of Biology, Northern Michigan University

1:20 – 1:40White-tailed Deer Fawn Risk From Gray Wolf Predation During Summer

Shannon Barber-Meyer, U.S. Geological Survey

1:40 – 2:00Brain, Craniofacial, and Dental Lesions of a Free-ranging Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Implicated in a Human Attack in Minnesota, USA.

Anibal Armien, Population Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota

2:00 – 2:20Evaluation of Cable Restraints for the Live Capture of wolves in Minnesota

Barry Sampson, Forest Wildlife Populations & Research Group, MN DNR

2:20 – 2:50Potential for the restoration of Omashkoozoog in the 1854 and 1837 Ceded Territories

Mike Schrage, Fond du Lac Resource Management Division

2:50 – 3:10BREAK

3:10 - 3:30Local Government Input on Wolf Management: A County Board Perspective

Laurie Groskopf, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation

3:30 – 3:50State Management Plans in the Western Great Lakes Wolf Recovery Area Jill Fritz, Humane Society of the United States

3:50 – 4:10An Eighteen Year Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Colonizing GrayWolves (Canis lupus)in a Disjunct Population.

Theresa Simpson, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

4:10 – 4:50Understanding the Moose Decline in Northeastern Minnesota

Glenn DelGiudice, Forest Wildlife Populations & Research Group, MN DNR

5:00-6:00SOCIAL–cash bar

6:00-7:00DINNER

7:00-8:00Humans Strengthen Bottom-Up Effects and WeakenTrophic Cascades in a Terrestrial Food Web, Mark S. Boyce, Department of Biological Sciences,University of Alberta

Tuesday, April 26th

8:00-8:30Wolf Depredation in Minnesota

John Hart, U.S.D.A. Wildlife Services

8:30-9:00Wolf Depredation in Wisconsin

Dave Ruid, U.S.D.A. Wildlife Services

9:00-9:30Wolf Depredation in Michigan

Brian Roell, Michigan Department of Natural Resources

9:30-9:50Wolf interactions with snowmobilers in Voyageurs National Park

Bryce Olson, Voyageurs National Park

9:50-10:10BREAK

10:10-10:30Estimating the effect of moose population decline on wolf diet in northeastern MN

Ron Moen, NRRI and Dept. of Biology, University of Minnesota Duluth

10:30-11:10Genetic Diversity, Structure, and hybridization of gray wolves in Minnesota

John Erb, Forest Populations and Research Group, MN DNR

11:10-11:30Genetic Comparison of Great Lakes Wolves and Eastern Wolves

Tyler Wheeldon, Trent University

11:30-11:50Michipicoten Island Wolf-Caribou Study Update

Brent Patterson, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

11:50 – 12:00 Close and announcement for 2017 MWS

12:00LUNCH

Sponsored by Wildlife Science Center, USDA Wildlife Services Minnesota, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, IWC