FISHERIES & AQUATIC SESSION

8:20-8:40	CPUE: WHAT IT DOESN’T TELL YOU - Steven Sheriff and Robert Hrabik
8:40-9:00	COMPARISON OF FISH COMMUNITIES IN RECENTLY CONSTRUCTED SIDE-CHANNEL CHUTES WITH THE MAIN CHANNEL MISSOURI RIVER - Kasey Whiteman, Darrick Garner, and Vince Travnichek
9:00-9:20	PADDLEFISH MOVEMENT PAST A LOW-HEAD LOCK AND DAM IN THE LOWER OSAGE RIVER, MISSOURI - Joshua Lallaman and David Galat
9:20-9:40	TABLE ROCK LAKE AND THE NATIONAL FISH HABITAT INITIATIVE - Shane Bush and Mike Allen
9:40-10:00	CONDITION FACTOR CHANGES IN BIGHEAD AND SILVER CARP IN MIDWESTERN RIVERS: WHAT DO THEY TELL US? - Duane Chapman, Kevin Irons, Michael McClelland, Timothy O’Hara, Greg Sass, Jeff Thomas, and Mark Pearson
10:00-10:20	BREAK
10:20-10:40	A COMPARISON OF NUTRIENT-RICH AND NUTRIENT-POOR AQUATIC CAVE COMMUNITIES IN MISSOURI - Michael Sutton
10:40-11:00	OZARK CAVEFISH (Amblyopsis rosae) CONSERVATION IN MISSOURI: A PROACTIVE APPROACH TO RECOVERY - Blake Stephens and Rick Horton
11:00-11:20	THE WATERSHED EVALUATION AND COMPARISON TOOL - Christopher Barnett and Yan Barnett
11:20-11:40	GENERAL OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTIVE REARED OZARK HELLBENDERS RELEASED IN THE NORTH FORK OF THE WHITE RIVER, MISSOURI - Catherine Bodinof, Jeff Briggler, Randall Junge, Jeff Beringer, Mark Wanner, Chawna Schuette, and Joshua Millspaugh
11:40-12:00	KEEPING VOLUNTEERS INTERESTED AND ACTIVE: A RENEWED EMPHASIS ON MENTORING - Chris Riggert

FORESTRY SESSION

8:20-8:40	NEW INCENTIVES TO APPEAL TO CONSERVATION MOTIVATIONS OF MISSOURI FOREST LANDOWNERS - Stuart Miller
8:40-9:00	ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF WOODY BIOMASS HARVESTING IN THE MISSOURI OZARKS - Adam Saunders, Francisco Aguilar, John Dwyer, and Hank Stelzer
9:00-9:20	SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF FIRE INJURIES FOLLOWING PRESCRIBED BURNING AT THREE SITES IN THE MISSOURI OZARKS - Aaron Stevenson and Elizabeth Ball
9:20-9:40	ACORN PRODUCTION IN THE MISSOURI OZARKS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE MOFEP HARDMAST STUDY - Carrie Steen, Randy Jensen, Steve Sheriff, and Larry Vangilder
9:40-10:00	WOODLAND GROUND FLORA RESPONSE TO TIMBER MANAGEMENT: MOFEP FINDINGS FROM 2009 - Susan Farrington

SOIL & WATER SESSION

8:20-8:40	GREENING THE BLUE: WATER MANAGEMENT DECISIONS FOR THE NEW CENTURY - Loring Bullard
8:40-9:00	HINKSON CREEK WATERSHED: A TEACHING AND RESEARCH WATERSHED IMPROVING LAND MANAGEMENT DECISIONS IN DYNAMIC URBAN ECOSYSTEMS OF THE CENTRAL U.S. - Jason Hubbart and John Schulz
9:00-9:20	FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION OF BMPS FOR ANIMAL MANURE MANAGEMENT - Laura McCann, Haluk Gedikoglu, Bob Broz, John Lory, and Ray Massey
9:20-9:40	SPRING-FED WETLANDS ON THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOODPLAIN - Scott George
9:40-10:00	SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF SELECT LONG-TERM WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS IN MAIN AND SIDE CHANNELS FROM THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, 1993-2007 - Robert Hrabik and Laura Mills
10:00-10:20	BREAK
10:20-10:40	THE RELATIVE ROLE OF CLIMATE AND LAND-USE CHANGES IN STREAMFLOW TRENDS ACROSS THE PRAIRIE PENINSULA STATES OF THE MIDWEST - John Kochendorfer and Jason Hubbart
10:40-11:00	COMPARISON OF HYDROLOGIC AND WATER-QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO NATIVE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE STREAMS WITH AGRICULTURAL STREAMS IN MISSOURI AND KANSAS - David Heimann
11:00-11:20	FOREST SOIL HYDROLOGIC PROCESS ALTERATIONS AFTER 60 YEARS OF PRESCRIBED BURNING - Jason Hubbart and Kirsten Stephan
11:20-11:40	INFLUENCE OF FOREST HARVEST ON SOIL NUTRIENTS IN THE MISSOURI OZARK FOREST ECOSYSTEM PROJECT - Meredith Albers, Keith Goyne, John Kabrick, Peter Motavalli, and David Gwaze
11:40-12:00	EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM PRESCRIBED BURNING ON SOIL CHEMICAL PROPERTIES IN THE MISSOURI OZARKS - Kirsten Stephan and Jason Hubbart

WILDLIFE SESSION

8:00-8:20	A GENETIC APPROACH TO DETERMINE RIVER OTTER (Lontra canadensis) ABUNDANCE AND EFFECTS ON FISH POPULATIONS IN MISSOURI Rebecca Mowry, Lori Eggert, Matthew Gompper, and Jeff Beringer
8:20-8:40	TESTING MANAGER’S MENTAL MODELS OF BOBWHITE QUAIL HABITAT - Steven Noll, Sam Amerman, and Beth Emmerich
8:40-9:00	INTEGRATING NORTHERN BOBWHITE (Colinus virginianus) HABITAT ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES ON MU AGRICULTURE EXPERIMENT STATIONS: AN EDUCATIONAL MODEL THAT PUTS KNOWLEDGE INTO ACTION THROUGH THE USE OF DEMONSTRATIONS - Tim Reinbott, Robert Pierce II, Ray Wright, and Bill White
9:00-9:20	CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF IMPOUNDMENTS ON THE HYDROLOGY OF RIPARIAN WETLANDS ALONG THE MARMATON RIVER, WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI - David Heimann and Heather Krempa
9:20-9:40	EFFECTS OF PROPOSED IMPOUNDMENTS WITHIN THE MARMATON RIVER BASIN ON BREEDING AMPHIBIAN COMMUNITIES AT THREE SEASONALLY FLOODED WETLANDS - Heather Krempa, Stefan Cairns, and David Heimann
9:40-10:00	THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF ALTERED HYDROLOGY ON RIPARIAN WETLAND VEGETATION ALONG THE MARMATON RIVER IN WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI - Joseph Ely, Paige Mettler-Cherry, and David Heimann
10:00-10:20	BREAK
10:20-10:40	AFTER 25 YEARS OF PRESCRIBED FIRE: WOODLAND BIRD POPULATIONS IN THE HA HA TONKA OAK WOODLAND NATURAL AREA - Allison Vaughn
10:40-11:00	AN ECOLOGICAL POTENTIAL MODEL FOR CENTRAL HARDWOODS FORESTS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL AVIAN CONSERVATION PLANNING - D. Todd Jones-Farrand, Lee O’Brien, and Jane Fitzgerald
11:00-11:20	EFFECTS OF LEAF LITTER SPECIES ON GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF AMPHIBIAN TADPOLES - Julia Earl, Kara Cohagen, and Raymond Semlitsch
11:20-11:40	RESPONSE OF ABOVE-GROUND ARTHROPODS TO RESTORATION OF NATIVE WARM SEASON GRASSLANDS - Adrian Andrei, Emily Magrowski, and Larry Mechlin
11:40-12:00	BIOTIC HOMOGENIZATION: MISSOURI’S NATURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE ASSIMILATION BLENDER - Paul Nelson