Wild Trout X Program
"Conserving Wild Trout"
Sept 28-30, 2010
Holiday Inn, Sunspree Resort and Conference Center
West Yellowstone, MT
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Free Fly casting clinic by Bob Jacklin!
1:00-4:00 pm Come join local fishing celebrity Bob Jacklin as he shares fly casting techniques and fishing magic with all. Meet at the FFF pond behind the historic train station, across the street from the Holiday Inn and behind the historic town center.
Wild Trout X Steering Committee Meeting
4:00-5:00 pm
Registration opens
5:00-9:00 pm
Wild Trout Ice Breaker Social
6:00-8:00 pm Come meet and mingle! NOTE TO PRESENTERS - please turn in your talks to the Media Center and find your moderator to confirm all bios and manuscript submission needs.
Program
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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| Opening remarks |
| 8:00 AM |
Dirk Miller |
Welcome |
| Plenary Session and panel discussion, Dirk Miller moderator |
| 8:20 AM |
Dr. Barbara Knuth |
People and trout: implications of social and economic trends for wild trout and associated habitats.
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| 8:50 AM |
Dr. Steve McMullin |
Truth, lies and myths in the age of instantaneous information: redefining the roles of anglers and fisheries professionals in wild trout management
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| 9:20 AM |
Dr. Bruce Rieman |
Climate change and wild trout: what can or should we do about it?
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| 9:50 AM |
Panel |
Moderated panel question & answer session |
| 10:10 AM |
Break |
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| Climate Change & Wild Trout, Bob Gresswell moderator |
| 10:40 AM |
Gray, Stephen |
Vulnerability of native trout habitat under climate change: case studies from the northern rocky mountains |
| 11:00 AM |
Leppi, Jason |
Influence of climate change on August stream discharge in the northern Rockies |
| 11:20 AM |
Williams, Jack |
What does rapid environmental change mean for persistence of western trout, and what can we do about it? |
| 11:40 AM |
Colyear, Warren |
The role of life history diversity in the age of climate change: using empirical data and heuristic models to investigate persistence and resiliency in a native trout population |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
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| 1:00 PM |
Sedell, Ted |
Predicting the responses of native trout to post-wildfire debris flows in headwater systems |
| 1:20 PM |
Copeland, Timothy |
Interspecies synchrony in salmonid densities and large-scale environmental conditions in central Idaho |
| 1:40 PM |
Trumbo, Brad |
Ranking resiliency of brook trout populations to climate change |
| 2:00 PM |
Mitro, Matt |
Predicted effects of climate change on the distribution of wild brook trout and brown trout in Wisconsin streams |
| 2:20 PM |
Dollof, Andy |
Long term study of brook trout in an Appalachian mountain stream |
| 2:40 PM |
Mathews, Kathleen |
California golden trout and climate change |
| 3:00 PM |
Break |
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| Economic & Cultural Values of Wild Trout, Doug Besler moderator |
| 3:30 PM |
Maillett, Edward |
The challenging role of economics: a case study on the designation of critical habitat for the bull trout |
| 3:50 PM |
Gamblin, Mark |
Diverse values and relevance of native species in wildlife management perspectives for wildlife managers |
| 4:10 PM |
Corrinne-Brown, Jennifer |
Why are mountain whitefish ugly? The marginalization of a native game fish |
| 4:30 PM |
Poster session |
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| 5:30 PM |
Adjourn; Dinner on your own |
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| 7:30 PM |
Movie: Rivers of a Lost Coast |
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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| Economic & Cultural Values of Wild Trout, Doug Besler moderator (cont.) |
| 8:00 AM |
Halverson, Anders |
Trout stocking: a catalyst of the Endangered Species Act |
| 8:20 AM |
Grover, William |
Piscatorial pedagogy and the ‘geography of hope’: reflections on teaching the literature and craft of fly fishing |
| Genetic Considerations for Managing Wild Trout, Mark Novak moderator |
8:40 AM |
King, Tim |
Planning for an evolutionary future in the presence of climate change: the quest for adaptive genetic variation among brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations exhibiting prodigious differentiation at neutral loci |
| 9:00 AM |
Humston, Robert |
Impacts of put-and-grow stocking in small impoundments on tributary populations of brook trout in Virginia |
| 9:20 AM |
Mayden, Richard |
Evolution an diversity of trout species in Mexico |
| 9:40 AM |
Break |
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| 10:10 AM |
Earle, Jennifer |
Recovery planning for westslope cutthroat trout: a threatened species in Alberta |
| 10:30 AM |
Rogers, Kevin |
Genetic considerations for managing wild trout |
| 10:50 AM |
Shiozawa, Dennis |
Cutthroat trout phylogenetic relationships with an assessment of geographical associations between Greenback and Colorado River cutthroat trout |
| Wild Trout in the Face of Invasive Species & Diseases, Bob Wiltshire moderator |
| 11:10 AM |
James, Daniel |
The influence of Didymosphenia geminata on fisheries resources in Rapid Creek, South Dakota – an eight year history |
| 11:30 AM |
Madden, Reg |
Examining the occurrence of wild rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in the Bras d’Or Lakes, Nova Scotia: using scale pattern analysis to differentiate hatchery and wild populations |
| 11:50 AM |
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Aldo Starker Leopold Awards Luncheon |
| 1:00 PM |
Vincenzi, Simone |
Survival and growth rate differences between marble trout living in allopatry or in sympatry with rainbow trout in upper Idrijca (Slovenia) |
| 1:20 PM |
McMahon, Tom |
A before-after control-impact comparison of the effects of whirling disease epizootics on trout population dynamics in Montana rivers |
| 1:40 PM |
Ryce, Eileen |
Whirling disease in the United States: a summary of progress in research and management |
| Management & Conservation of Wild Trout, Scott Stanton moderator |
| 2:00 PM |
Homel, Kristen |
Life history organization of native cutthroat trout in the upper Snake River |
| 2:20 PM |
Schill, Daniel |
Abundance and effective population size (Ne) of redband trout populations in desert streams of southwest Idaho |
| 2:40 PM |
Break |
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| 3:10 PM |
Bosse, Scott |
Conserving wild trout at the landscape scale using the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act |
| 3:30 PM |
Baxter, James |
Use of radio telemetry with mark-recapture snorkel surveys to improve population estimates of fluvial trout species and monitor population response to the implementation of a catch and release regulation |
| 3:50 PM |
Zuckerman, Larry |
ESA, water right adjudications, and western salmonid conservation: a tale of two species – Big Lost River mountain whitefish and Montana fluvial grayling |
| 4:10 PM |
Teuscher, David |
American white pelican predation on Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the Blackfoot River system, Idaho |
| 4:30 PM |
Poster Session |
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| 5:30 PM |
Adjourn |
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| 6:30 PM |
Symposium Banquet |
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
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| Management & Conservation of Wild Trout, Scott Stanton moderator (cont.) |
| 8:00 AM |
Bloom, Roger |
Assessing the landing efficiency of barbed vs. barbless artificial flies for trout |
| 8:20 AM |
Starcevich, Steven |
Annual movement patterns of fluvial adult bull trout in selected watersheds in the mid-Columbia River and Snake River basins |
| 8:40 AM |
Battle, Laurie |
Effectiveness of flow management and rainbow trout harvest on long-term viability of native Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the South Fork Snake River |
| 9:00 AM |
High, Brett |
Yellowstone cutthroat trout conservation efforts on the South Fork Snake River |
| Resource Extraction & Wild Trout Restoration Efforts, Amy Wolfe moderator |
| 9:20 AM |
O'Neal, Sarah |
Proposed Copper-Sulfide Mining in Bristol Bay, Alaska: Identified Risks to Fisheries |
| 9:40 AM |
Valdal, Eric |
Spatial analysis of forestry related disturbance on westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi): implications for policy and management |
| 10:00 AM |
Break |
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| 10:30 AM |
Shingleton, Mike |
Acid stream restoration and the return of brook trout |
| 10:50 AM |
Skidmore, Peter |
RiverRAT: river restoration analysis tools for planning and evaluating stream management and restoration projects |
| 11:10 AM |
Williams, Rick |
The J.R. Simplot Company’s Meade Peak Ranch: a model for sustainability of Yellowstone cutthroat trout, riparian stream restoration, and traditional livestock grazing and management |
| 11:30 AM |
Knox, Robin |
Are National Fish Habitat Partnerships, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, state Wildlife Action Plans and the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives enough to conserve wild native trout? |
| 11:50 AM |
Snyder, Samuel |
Why restore? Cultural dimensions of native trout restoration |
| 12:10 PM |
Moore, Steve |
WTX Wrap-Up Session |
| 12:30 PM |
Adjourn |
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| 1:00 PM |
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Post-symposium debrief & planning for Wild Trout XI. Box lunch provided if you participate! All welcome to attend - please let us know if you're coming so we can get an accurate head count for lunch. |