NCTWS - Annual Meetings

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1 NCTWS - Annual Meetings Dates Location Special Theme or Focus April 27, 1984 Room 3533 Gardner Hall - NC State University Raleigh First annual meeting of the North Carolina Chapter of the Wildlife Society. February 17-18, 1985 Wilmington Hilton Inn Wilmington Cosponsored by, and in association with, the 8 th Annual Meeting of the SE Deer February 7, 1986 Greensboro Hilton Hotel Greensboro February 20, 1987 Sheraton Inn Asheville April 15, 1988 NCSU Faculty Club Raleigh March 10, 1989 NC Aquarium Pine Knoll Shores March 23, 1990 Harris Energy & Environmental Center New Hill March 21, 1991 Terrace Hotel Lake Junaluska Assembly Lake Junaluska March 29, 1992 The Convention Center Charlotte Study Group. Held in conjunction with the NC Wildlife Federation. Held in conjunction with the 57 th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. April 1, 1993 NC State University Raleigh March 24-25, 1994 NCSU Hill Forest facility Durham March 21-22, 1995 Camp Cheerio Alleghany Geographic Information Systems (GIS). County March 27-28, 1996 Moore County NC Coop. Extension Office Carthage February Lake Mattamuskeet NWR Coastal Management of Waterfowl and Red Wolves. March 25-26, 1998 Blue Ridge Assembly Black Mtn Re-introduction of Extirpated Species and the Role of Early Successional Forests on Public Lands. March 24-25, 1999 Brown Summit Reidsville Wildlife and Urbanism in NC: What does March 22-23, 2000 March 7-8, 2001 Trinity Center Pine Knoll Shores Blue Ridge Assembly Black Mountain the future hold? Public and Private Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation. NC Landscapes: Past, Present, and Future Implications for Wildlife Habitat. February 27-28, 2002 Homewood Suites at Olmstead Celebrating North Carolina s Biodiversity. Village Pinehurst March 5-6, 2003 Pocosin National Wildlife Refuge Wildlife Excellence Through Research and Management. March 10-11, 2004 Lake Logan Episcopal Center Invasive-Exotic-Noxious Species. Canton February 8-9, 2005 Brown Summit Reidsville Fisheries and Wildlife Management in Riparian Systems: Where Wet and Dry Meet with the NC Chapter of AFS. February 23-24, 2006 Forth Fisher Air Force Stewardship of Our Coastal Resources. Recreation Area Kure Beach March 15-16, 2007 Camp Kanuga Hendersonville Fire on the Mountain! February 2008 The Summit at Haw River State Park/Brown Summit Reidsville 25 th Anniversary Celebration.

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31 NCTWS Annual Meeting 2004 March 10-11, 2004 Lake Logan Episcopal Center Theme : Exotic species and Wildlife Conservation 12:00 1:00 Registration Wednesday (3/10) at Lake Logan 1:00 Introductions and Housekeeping 1:10 Special Presentation: Farming and Conservation: a British Perspective Paul Homes-Ling (Farm Wildlife Advisory Group) 2:15 Break Followed by Question and Answer Period 2:45 Exotic Plant Management on Mecklenburg County Nature Preserves 3:15 Exotic Plant Management on the Blue Ridge Parkway Gary Marshall, Mecklenburg County Parks Chris Ulrey, USNPS Blue Ridge Parkway 3:45 Non-native plants in Game Management Kent Kammermeyer, GADNR, Wildlife Resources Division 4:15 Exotic Birds and their impacts in the Southern Appalachians 5:00 Adjourn 6:00 Dinner 7:00 Social and Auction Curtis Smalling, NC Audubon

32 THURSDAY (3/11) 8:00-9:00 Breakfast and NCTWS Business Meeting 9:00 Break 9:30 Swine Management in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Kim Delozier, USNPS Great Smoky Mts. NP 10:00 NCWRC Swine Management Mark Jones, NCWRC 10:30 Break 11:00 Exotic Insects (Gypsy Moth, Hemlock adelgid, etc.) 12:00 Lunch Executive Board meeting Rusty Rhea, USFS

33 2005 Annual Meeting North Carolina Chapters - American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society The Summit Conference Center Brown Summit, North Carolina Monday, February 7, :00 5:00 Registration Conference Center Lobby 6:00-7:00 Dinner for workshop participants Tuesday, February 8, :30 8:00 Breakfast 8:00 12:00 Registration Conference Center Lobby 8:00 10:00 Continuing Education Workshop: (AFS) Electric Power Research Institute & (TWS) Establishment and Management of Warm Season Grasses 10:00 10:30 Break 10:30 12:00 Continuing Education Workshop: (AFS) Electric Power Research Institute & (TWS) Establishment and Management of Warm Season Grasses 2:00 1:00 Lunch for all pre-registered meeting attendees 1:00 1:10 Welcome and Introductions: Mallory Martin, President, NC Chapter AFS Pete Campbell and Jeff Marcus, NCTWS 1:10 1:50 Sam Pearsall, Director of Science for NC Nature Conservancy 1:50 2:30 Andy Dolloff, Professor of Fisheries, Virginia Tech 2:30 2:50 Break 2:50 6:00 Contributed papers in joint session of AFS and TWS 6:30 - until Food and Beverage Social The Summit Conference Center Wednesday, February 9, :30 8:00 Breakfast 8:00 12:00 Contributed papers in separate sessions of AFS and TWS 12:00 1:00 Lunch for all registered meeting attendees 1:00 3:00 Separate Business Meetings for AFS and TWS 3:00 Adjourn

34 Final Agenda for the North Carolina Chapter of The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting at Fort Fisher Air Force Recreation Area - Kure Beach Stewardship of our Coastal Resources Thursday, 23 February :30 P.M. Protecting the Thermal Habitat of Sea Turtles on North Carolina Beaches Matthew Godfrey, Sea Turtle Biologist - North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission 2:10 Deer Management Issues on Bald Head Island Dr. Suzanne Dorsey, Executive Director - Bald Head Island Conservancy and Dr. Anthony Snider, Southern Sites Manager - North Carolina Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve 2:50 Challenges for Beach Nesting Birds Walker Golder, Deputy Director - Audubon North Carolina 3:30 BREAK 4:00 Solutions and Partnerships Coastal Collaborations Dan Bell, Green Swamp Project Director - The Nature Conservancy 4:40 The Erosion Problem. Is Beach Nourishment the Answer? Dr. Orin Pilkey, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment 6:00 Dinner A Pig Pickin with NCTWS 7:00 Social and The Auction Enjoy some time with your colleagues and attempt to acquire an auction item that you just cannot live without! Good Luck!

35 Friday, 24 February :00 A.M. Breakfast 8:00 A.M. Painted Bunting Conservation in the Carolinas: Traditional Monitoring Meets Citizen Science Dr. Jamie Rotenberg, Department of Biology and Marine Biology University of North Carolina Wilmington 8:20 North Carolina s Wildlife Action Plan: A New Opportunity for Collaborative Conservation Jeffrey F. Marcus, Piedmont Faunal Diversity Biologist - North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission 8:40 Private support is more than dollars, but those are nice too Tim Langer, Ph.D. student Zoology Department North Carolina State University 9:00 BREAK 9:20 Predator Management to Improve the Reproductive Success of Threatened and Endangered Coastal Species along Cape Hatteras National Seashore Joshua Biesecker, Wildlife Specialist USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services 9:40 Do Urban Greenways Provide High Quality Bird Habitat? Dr. Christopher E. Moorman, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University 10:00 Celebrating Our Wildlife Conservation Heritage Bob Hazel, Wildlife Biologist former Executive Director of North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and Jon F. Heisterberg, State Director - USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services 10:45 BREAK 11:00 Business Meeting Chris Moorman, President NCTWS 12:00 Lunch and adjourn (Following lunch the Chapter will hold a board meeting, any interested member is invited to attend) The North Carolina Chapter of The Wildlife Society thanks you for your attendance and continued participation and support of our chapter. Safe travels home, best wishes with work and see you next year!

36 FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN Camp Kanuga Conference Center March 15, :00 Introduction 1:15 Building a case for more prescribed fire for wildlife on the mountain Craig Harper, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee 2:00 NCWRC s use of fire on the mountain Dean Simon, Wildlife Forester, NCWRC 2:30 Air quality and fire on the mountain Bill Jackson, Air Quality Specialist, USDA Forest Service 3:00 Break 3:30 Using fire to restore southern yellow pine communities on the mountain Tom Waldrop, Fire Ecologist, USDA Forest Service 4:00 Environmental education about fire on the mountain Renee Strnad, NC Project Learning Tree Coordinator, North Carolina State University 4:30 Amphibian and reptile response to fire and a fire surrogate on the mountain Charlotte Matthews, Masters Student, North Carolina State University 5:00 Status of TWS today and in the future Robert Brown, Past-President of TWS and Dean, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University 6 PM Supper and Social 8:00 Breakfast 9:00 NCTWS Business Meeting 10:20 Break March 16, :40 A FAST AND RELIABE HARD MAST INDEX FROM ACORN PRESENCE- ABSENCE TALLIES. Cathryn H. Greenberg, and Gordon S. Warburton. 11:00 SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF FIRE AND OTHER FUEL REDUCTION TREATMENTS ON BREEDING BIRDS, SMALL MAMMALS, AND MACROARTHROPODS IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN UPLAND HARDWOOD FOREST. Cathryn H. Greenberg, Aimee Tomcho, J. Drew Lanham, David L. Otis, Stanlee Miller, Thomas A. Waldrop, Joseph Tomcho, Ross J. Phillips, and Dean Simon. 11:20 VISUAL IMPLANT FLUORESCENT ELASTOMERS AS A VIABLE MARKING ALTERNATIVE TO SCALE CLIPPING AND BRANDING TECHNIQUES. Stan J. Hutchens, Christopher S. DePerno, Charlotte E. Matthews, Kenneth H. Pollock, and David K. Woodward, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC :40 BREAKING THROUGH THE FOOD PLOT MENTALITY. Christopher E. Moorman, Christopher S. DePerno, and Craig Harper. 12:00 Contributed Paper #5 - OPEN 12:00 Lunch Poster EFFICACY OF SAMPLING TECHNIQUES FOR SURVEYING REPTILE AND AMPHIBIAN SPECIES DIVERSITY IN A POCOSIN WETLAND. Stan J. Hutchens, Christopher S. DePerno, and Kenneth H. Pollock