52ND JOINT ANNUAL MEETING Arizona and New Mexico Chapters of

The Wildlife Society &

Arizona/New Mexico Chapter of The American Fisheries Society

February 7-9, 2019

Marriott Pyramid Hotel Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North

5151 San Francisco Road NE Albuquerque, NM 87109

1 505-821-3333

The Sandia Suite, located adjacent to the gift shop, is available on Friday and Saturday to nursing mothers as a lactation room. Children welcome.

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The People Who Made It Happen 2019 List of Committee Chairpersons & Meeting Organizers

New Mexico Chapter of The Wildlife Society Executive Board

Bill Dunn, President Matt Wunder, President-Elect

Ginny Seamster, Section Representative Daryl Ratajczak, Secretary Brian Dykstra, Treasurer

Ron Kellermueller, Newsletter Editor Casey Cardinal, Board Member

Ivana Mali, Board Member Cassandra Hendricks, Board Member

Arrangements Coordinator Bill Dunn, Sundance Consulting/New Mexico State University Program Coordinator Matt Wunder, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Announcements Brent Bibles, Unity College Facilities Brian Dykstra, US Forest Service, retired Program Layout and Printing Jessica Moreno, AZTWS/Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection Student-Mentor Lunch Ginny Seamster, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Workshops Ivana Mali, Eastern New Mexico University Vendors Leland Pierce, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Photo Contest Ron Kellermuller, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Plenary Kathy Granillo, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge Marikay Ramsey, Bureau of Land Management Wildlife Presentations Casey Cardinal, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Fisheries Presentations Tim D’Amico, Arizona Game and Fish Department Student Presentations Jimmy Cain, USGS- New Mexico State University Jennifer Frey, New Mexico State University Pilar Wolters. Arizona Game and Fish Department Registration Daryl Ratajczak, US Forest Service Elise Goldstein, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Silent Auction Elise Goldstein, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Casey Hendricks, New Mexico State Land Office

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Student Posters Brian Hanson, US Fish and Wildlife Service, retired Pilar Wolters. Arizona Game and Fish Department Lori Walton, Bureau of Reclamation Ashley Tanner, WEST, Inc. Student Poster Judges Brian Hanson, US Fish and Wildlife Service, retired Leland Pierce, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Ashley Tanner, WEST, Inc. Student Volunteers Ivana Mali, Eastern New Mexico University Jennifer Frey, New Mexico State University Chuck Hayes, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Quiz Bowl Brett Montgomery, Arizona Game and Fish Department Brent Bibles, Unity College Pilar Wolters, Arizona Game and Fish Department Tiffany Sprague, AZTWS/McDowell Sonoran Conservancy Kent Mosher, Bureau of Reclamation Spawning Run Pilar Wolters. Arizona Game and Fish Department

Wildlife artwork © Ken Lamberton

Hello, students!

There are eight different species represented in the artwork in this program.

Do you know them all? Submit your answers (use scientific names!) at the AZTWS table to enter a raffle prize. One lucky winner will be drawn during the

Banquet and Awards Ceremony.

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Changing Paradigms for a Changing Climate

Plenary Session

Friday, February 8, 2019 | 8am – 11:30am Located in the Cancun/Yucatan/Las Cruces/Santa Fe Meeting Rooms

Join these distinguished scientists and conservationists as we discuss ways the

conservation community can make a difference concerning climate change, the keystone environmental issue of our time.

David Gutzler is Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico (NNM). He and his students use observed data and climate model output to assess the causes of global and regional climate variability, and to improve the skill and application of climatic and hydrologic predictions on seasonal and longer time scales. He holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (B.S., Engineering Physics) and MIT (PhD, Meteorology). He served as a Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2013) and is currently working on the initial draft of its Sixth Assessment Report, scheduled

to be published in 2021. He has received the outstanding teaching award from the UNM College of Arts and Sciences, a career achievement award from the New Mexico Bureau of Geology, and presented UNM's annual Community Engaged Research Lecture in November 2018.

Bill Noble started his biology career as a fisheries field technician in Yellowstone National Park in 1980. He started a degree program after 2 years of fisheries work, earning a Bachelor’s in wildlife science from the University of Montana and a Masters in wildlife ecology from Oregon State University, minoring in forestry. During his undergraduate years, he shook off the water and moved to terrestrial wildlife with an emphasis on large mammals (bears, wolves, and elk). He later worked on projects focused on small mammals, raptors, and invertebrates. Formal education and field-based research continued into the early 1990s. One day in the mid-

90s he ended up behind a desk with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Washington State. He eventually retired from the US Forest Service in Flagstaff in 2016. During his seated years he was fortunate to work on 2 landscape-scaled, ecologically based restoration projects. After about 2 decades in offices and cubicles he now enjoys being outside again.

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John Bradford studies the impact of global change on terrestrial ecosystems, focusing on understanding how changing climatic conditions and land use practices influence terrestrial vegetation structure and composition. His interests tend toward large spatial and long temporal scales and integrate results from manipulative and observational experiments with simulation modeling to develop applied insights at scales from plots to landscapes and regions. John’s current research projects include quantifying past, current and future patterns of drought, and the implications for the sustainability of dryland plant communities

Doug Parsons is Director and host of “America Adapts Media,” a podcast to raise awareness about climate change. He first started doing adaptation work in Queensland, Australia, focusing on the impacts of climate change on the agriculture sector. Upon returning to the United States, Parsons joined the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and quickly assumed the duties of their first Climate Change Coordinator. In that position, he developed a first of its kind climate change course that has since been modeled by both the federal government and the state of California. Parsons worked with some amazing people in Florida, developing the framework for the science and planning teams that continue to do

amazing work in the Sunshine State. He also contributed to various national initiatives such as the National Fish, Wildlife and Plant Adaptation Strategy. With a growing interest in working nationally, he then took a position as Climate Change Liaison with the National Park Service’s Climate Change Response program. In that role, Parsons had the privilege of contributing to some of the earliest federal policy discussions around adaptation. He then took the role as North America Policy Director at the Society for Conservation Biology, working on climate change adaptation, endangered species and science communication issues. Through his podcast, Parsons talks with some of the most amazing experts in the field of adaptation, hoping to make the world aware there are positive stories associated with climate change - and there are things we can do today to take action.

Katherine Hayhoe has a B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Toronto; and an MS and PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a climate scientist, a professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, part of the Department of Interior’s South-Central Climate Science Center. Her research currently focuses on establishing a scientific basis for assessing the regional to local-scale impacts of climate change on human systems and the natural environment. To this end, she analyzes observations, compares future scenarios, evaluates global and regional climate models,

builds and assess statistical downscaling models, and constantly strives to develop better ways of translating climate projections into information relevant to agriculture, ecosystems, energy, infrastructure, public health, and water resources.

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Plenary Session “Changing Paradigms for a Changing Climate”

8:00 – 8:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks, BILL DUNN, President New Mexico Chapter TWS, and KATHY GRANILLO & MARIKAY RAMSEY, plenary organizers

8:15 – 8:45 a.m. DAVID GUTZLER, PhD, Professor of Earth & Planetary Science, University of New Mexico, and a lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

8:45 – 9:05 a.m. BILL NOBLE, MS, retired U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist, expert

on landscape-scale forest restoration. 9:05 – 9:35 a.m. JOHN BRADFORD, PhD, Research Ecologist, US Geological Survey,

expert on ecosystems responses to disturbance and climate change. 9:35 – 9:45 am. Question and Answer Session with panelists 9:50 – 10:05 a.m. Break 10:05 – 10:50 a.m. DOUG PARSONS, MS, Director and host of “America Adapts Media,”

a podcast to raise awareness about climate change. 10:50 – 11:10 a.m. KATHERINE HAYHOE, PHD, Director of the Climate Science Center at

Texas Tech University, and a Professor in the Department of Political Science. Expert at translating climate projections into information relevant to on the ground activities. Ted Talk: The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it.

11:10 – 11:30 a.m. Question and Answer Session with panelists 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch

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Schedule at a Glance

Thursday February 7

Start End Event Location

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Lunch 12-1:15

Use of Piscicides in Fisheries Management Taos

9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Lunch 12-1

Turtle Conservation and Monitoring Santa Rosa

8:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Lunch 12-1

Intro to Occupancy Modeling Las Cruces/Santa Fe

8:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. Lunch 12-1:30

Survey 123 – Data Collection Using Mobile

Devices Coronado

9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Lunch 12-1

Venomous Reptile Handling Yucatan

MEETING AND EVENT SCHEDULE

12:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Registration Corridor

3:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Presentation Loading Rio Grande

3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Poster/Photo Set-up Kokopelli

4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Vendors Set-up Kokopelli

4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. AZ TWS Business Meeting Cancun

4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. NM TWS Business Meeting Taos

4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. AZ/NM AFS Business Meeting Las Cruces/Santa Fe

5:00 p.m. Silent Auction Begins! Gallery

6:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Welcome Social and Appetizers Cozumel/Tampico/Coronado

7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Student Quiz Bowl Yucatan

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Schedule at a Glance

Friday February 8

7:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Registration Corridor

7:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Presentation loading/Review Rio Grande

10:00 a.m. Deadline to Submit for Photo Contest Kokopelli

8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Vendors Kokopelli

8:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Plenary Session Cancun/Yucatan/Las Cruces/Santa Fe

9:50 a.m. 10:05 a.m. Morning Coffee Break Corridor

11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Lunch

11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Student Mentor Lunch Atrium

12:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Photo Contest Voting Open Kokopelli

1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions Cancun/Yucatan/Tampico-Cozumel/Taos/Las Cruces

3:00 p.m. 3:20 p.m. Afternoon Break Corridor

3:20 p.m. 5:20 p.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions Cancun/Yucatan/Tampico-Cozumel/Taos/Las Cruces

4:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Poster Session Kokopelli

8:00 p.m. Silent Auction Closes Gallery

6:30 p.m. Cash Bar & Banquet Doors Open Cancun/Yucatan/Las Cruces/Taos/Santa Fe

7:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m. Banquet and Awards Ceremony Cancun/Yucatan/Las Cruces/Taos/Santa Fe

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Schedule at a Glance

Saturday February 9

7:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Spawning Run 5K

7:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Presentation loading/Review Rio Grande

8:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Poster/Photo Take Down Kokopelli

8:00 a.m. 9:40 a.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions Cancun/Yucatan/Tampico-Cozumel/Taos/Las Cruces

10:15 a.m. 11:30 a.m. AFS/TWS Officers Meeting Atrium

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Fri Feb 8

Fisheries Session 1

Fisheries Session 2 (Student Session)

Wildlife Session 1 (Student Competition)

Wildlife Session 2

Moderator Dan Trujillo Tim D’Amico Jennifer Frey Leland Pierce

Room Tampico-Cozumel Cancun Yucatan Taos-Las Cruces

1:00 The Last Population of Peppered Chub and Clues to its Persistence - Joanna L. Hatt

Comparison of Critical Thermal Limits of Three Gila Trout Lineages with Temperature Regimes of Recover Streams in the Gila River Drainage - Tyler J. Wallin*

Following the Wind? Predicting Effects of Wind Energy on Bats - Clarissa Starbuck*

Comparisons of Reptile Assemblages in Two Subdivisions of the Sonoran Desertscrub Biotic Community- Ashley Grimsley

1:20 Evolution of Potential Translocation Sites for Native Fish: A Case Study - Brian Hickerson

Strontium Isotope Analysis of Dorsal Spines to Assess Natal Origin of Largemouth Bass in Elephant Butte Reservoir - Alexander V. Vaisvil*

Tracking the Outcomes of Burrowing Owl Translocations from Urban Development Sites to Artificial Habitat in Arizona - Dejeanne Doublet*

Drones, Lizards, and Fire: Quantifying the Effects of Wildfire on Riparian Vegetation and Wildlife - Heather Bateman

1:40

The American Fisheries Society North American Standard Sampling Project – Update and Application to the Southwest - Scott A. Bonar

Environmental Conditions that Affect Timing of Hatch of Largemouth Bass in a Southwest Irrigation Reservoir - Aliah L. Guerrero*

Response of Lesser Prairie-Chicken Habitat to Prescribed Burning in the Shinnery Oak Prairie of Eastern New Mexico - Alex Kunkel*

The Effects of Urbanization on Gila Monster Populations in Oro Valley, Arizona - Alexus Cazares*

2:00 Population Characteristics and Management of Lentic Burbot in The Green River Basin, Wyoming - Tucker A. Brauer

Developing Trojan Sex Chromosome Carriers (YY Males) to Control Nuisance Fish Populations in the Southwest - Chad Teal*

Estimating the Prevalence of Sarcoptic Mange in a Desert Coyote Population Using Multi-State Occupancy Models - Craig Reddell*

Mexican Gartersnakes in the Bill Williams Drainage, Western Arizona - Ryan O'Donnell

2:20

An Evolution of Three Artificial Structures to Reduce Predation of Hatchery-Reared Bonytail and Razorback Suckers - Kristopher J. Stahr

Impacts of Temperature and Non-Native Brown Trout on Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout Production - Lauren M. Flynn*

Spatial Density Estimation of Mountain Lions by Cameras and Genetic Analysis in the Desert Southwest - Tricia Rossettie*

The Effect of Moon Illumination on Nightly Snake Abundance - John Bosak

2:40 Mimbres River Habitat Restoration - Bryan Ferguson

Challenges and Rewards of Starting a Teenage Mentorship Program in a University STEM Department - Lauren M. Flynn*

Hormonal and Behavioral Responses to Handling in Captive Narrow-Headed Gartersnakes - Kayla Lauger*

3:00-3:20 BREAK

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Fri Feb 8 Fisheries Session 3 Fisheries Session 4 Wildlife Session 3 Wildlife Session 4

Moderator Dan Trujillo Tim D’Amico Jim Stuart Bob Osborn

Room Tampico-Cozumel Cancun Yucatan Taos-Las Cruces

3:20

Rangewide Status of Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout: 2016 - Bryan D. Bakevich

Remediation of Aquatic Environments Using Algae Turf Scrubbers (ATS) - Bert Siville*

Home on the Range: How Far Do New Mexico Jumping Mice Go? - Jose Martinez-Fonseca*

Quantifying Spatio-Temporal Variability in Thermal Landscapes Through a Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing System: Implications for Thermal Ecology Research - Evan Tanner

3:40

An Assessment of Water Quality in New Mexico's Coldwater Reservoirs Stocked with Sub-Adult Rainbow Trout - Jane Trujillo

Genetic Status of Gila Trout Populations Based on Next-Generation RAD Sequencing - David T. Camak*

Chasing Chipmunks: Inside the Life of the Organ Mountains Colorado Chipmunk - Brittany Schweiger*

Changes in Forage Biomass for Elk and Mule Deer Following 6 Years of Landscape Scale Forest Restoration and Monitoring in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico - Sharon Smythe*

4:00

Evaluation of Feed Type to Improve Early Life Growth and Survival of Hatchery-Reared Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) - Devon C. Oliver

Texas Hornshell Mussel (Popenaias popeii) Candidate Conservation Agreements - Matt Ramey

Cameras or Traps? Evaluating Survey Techniques for the Endangered Peñasco Least Chipmunk - Fiona Mckibben*

Safe Passages for Wildlife on Interstate-10 within the Rincon-Santa Rita-Whetstone Mountains Wildlife Linkage - Jessica Moreno

4:20

Is Razorback Sucker Recruitment Impacted by Temperature, Food Availability, Competition with Flannelmouth Suckers, or a Combination of These Factors? - Pilar Wolters

Using Stable Isotopes to Quantify the Contribution of Zooplankton to Catfish Growth in Ponds - Jesse E. Filburn

Post-Fire Displacement in an Endangered Small Mammal - Melissa Merrick

Preserving the Connection: Habitat Connectivity in McDowell Sonoran Preserve - Tiffany Sprague

4:40

Genetic and Morphological Evidence for the Presence of Invasive Redeye Bass (Micropterus Coosae) in the Verde River, Arizona - Matthew J. Valente

Replicating Success in Natural Resource Management - Todd N. Pearsons

Behavior and Spatial Ecology of a Desert-Adapted Mammal in a Rapidly Changing Environment - Alexandra Burnett*

A Lesser Prairie-Chicken’s Perspective on Navigating the Anthropogenic Landscape - Ashley Tanner

5:00

Around the Watering Hole: Terrestrial Ecology of the Endangered Sonoran Tiger Salamander - Colin Brocka*

Using Environmental DNA and Metabarcoding to Characterize Aquatic Vertebrate Communities: Lessons from Fossil Creek, AZ - Catherine E. Benson

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Sat Feb 9 Wildlife Session 5 Wildlife Session 6 Wildlife Session 7

Moderator Ivana Mali Lindsey Mangipane Kay Nicholson

Room Cancun Yucatan Taos-Las Cruces

8:00

Finding Gold in The Old: Projects of NAU’s Ancient DNA Lab - Samantha Hershauer*

Survival and Causes of Mortality among Pre-Breeding Age Golden Eagles in the Southern High Plains - Robert Murphy

New Mexico Environmental Review Tool: A New Interactive Online Conservation and Project Planning Tool - Rayo Mccollough

8:20

Environmental DNA for Ecological Monitoring - Jacque Lyman*

Comparing Survival Rate, Dispersal, and Cause of Mortality of Released Captive-Bred and Wild Born Black-Footed Ferrets within a Reintroduction Site, Aubrey Valley, Arizona - Callie Hartson

Updating the Biota Information System of New Mexico User Interface: A Building Block of the New Mexico Conservation Information System - Virginia Seamster

8:40

Using Environmental DNA and Next-Generation Sequencing to Characterize Biological Communities in the Central Highlands of Arizona - Hillary Eaton

Mountain Lion Prey Composition in West Central Arizona - Jacob Mesler

Candidate Conservation Agreements and Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken and Dunes Sagebrush Lizard in New Mexico - Whit Storey

9:00

Hybridization Between Red-Eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) and Big Bend Slider (Trachemys gaigeae) in New Mexico - Tomasz Giermakowski

Elucidating the Effects of Land Use on the Movement Patterns of Puma concolor - Sophia Thompson

Update on Review of Wildlife Issues in Review of Renewable Energy Development Projects, Including Addition of Energy Storage, and Transmission Lines - William Werner

9:20

Reproductive Demography and Basking Behavior of Rio Grande Cooters on the Black River, New Mexico - Thanchira Suriyamongkol*

Post Construction Fatality Monitoring at a Wind Energy Facitlity in South Texas - Sara Weaver

*denotes student presenter

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Poster Session (alphabetical by last name of first author)

Friday at 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Fisheries Posters

Trojan (YY Male) Brook Trout as an Eradication Tool of Wild Brook Trout Populations in New Mexico *Armstrong, Benjamin W., and Colleen A. Caldwell. Efficacy of Native Baitfish Production: What’s the Bottom Line? Avenetti, Lorraine D., Devon C. Oliver, and Ryan Mann Disentangling Natural Dispersal Versus Human-Mediated Introduction of the Longfin Dace Across the Trans-Continental Divide *Cameron, Alex C., David T. Camak, Megan J. Osborne, Tyler J. Pilger, David L. Propst, and Thomas F. Turner See the Light: Construction of a Collapsible Larval Fish Light Trap Using a Low-Power LED Light Source *Livingstone, Alton S. Diet Patterns in First-Feeding Channel and Hybrid (Channel X Blue) Catfish *Olivas, Jeremeiah E., and Jesse E. Filburn, Cathleen M. Doyle, and Nagaraj Chatakondi Configuring Raspberry Pi Microcomputers for Monitoring of Stream Organisms Porter, Michael D., and Mary Fox Broodstock Density Mediates Larval Production of Captive-Spawned Loach Minnow and Spikedace Stahr, Kristopher J., Joshua T. Walters, and Hannah V. Smith. Efficacy of Depletion Models for Estimating Abundance of Endangered Fishes in Streams Stewart, David R., Matthew J. Butler, Lacrecia A. Johnson, Aaron Cajero, Amber N. Young, and Grant M. Harris.

Wildlife Posters

Influence of Social Context on Expression of Aggression in the Zebra Finch *Blanche, Anne-Laure, Kathryn Chenard, and Renée A. Duckworth. Environmental Predictors of Bird Abundance and Richness *Boehme, Cameron S., and Fabio Suzart.

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Abundance and Distribution of Sonora Mud Turtles Along the Upper Gila River in New Mexico *Duran, Jonathan, and J. Tom Giermakowski. Spatial Ecology of an Isolated Edge Population: The Endemic White-Bellied Vole (Microtus longicaudus leucophaeus) in Southern Arizona *Dutt, Neil, and Dr. John Koprowski. Innovative Food Web Approaches to Detect Invasive Species' Effects on Aridland Streams *Hamilton, Gregor, and Dr. Thomas Turner. Carnivore Activity in Riparian Forests of Southeastern Arizona *Herzog, Cheyenne. J., and Heather L. Bateman. The Effects of Urbanization on the Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister) *Johnson, Samantha, Alyssa Salazar, Luiza Samora, Brieanna Whitehair, and Matt Goode. Preliminary Assessment of Ornate Box Turtle Occupancy in Roosevelt County, New Mexico *Kreikemeier, Alissa A., Thanchira Suriyamongkol, Vinicius Ortega-Berno, and Ivana Mali. Machining a Solution to Data Heavy Rangeland Research: Case Study with Camera-trap Photo Processing Mayer, Brandon, and George Ruyle Understanding Climate Impact on Select New Mexican Birds through Bird Banding and Community Science Data *Moore, Catie M., and Hayley A. Neil. Mapping the Spread and Effect of Chytrid in Efforts to Protect Endangered Species of Amphibians *Nelson, Alyssa. Red Eared Slider and Painted Turtle Diets Using Stable Isotopes in Albuquerque New Mexico *Newell, Anya S., and Issa S Wilks. Comparing Herpetofauna across Urban and Non-Urban Habitats in Central Arizona *Nordheim, Caitlin L., and Dr. Heather L. Bateman. Growth Rate Estimates for the Rio Grande Cooter on the Black River, New Mexico *Ortega-Berno, Vinicius, Thanchira Suriyamongkol, Andrew W. Letter, Korry J. Waldon, and Ivana Mali. Washes as Movement Corridors in Semi-Arid Sonora, Mexico *Ragan, Kinley A., Sharon J. Hall, and Jan Schipper. Occupancy of American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) and Ecosystem Impacts *Samaniego, Lauren, and Wiebke J. Boeing. Turtle Population at Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge *Smith, Amanda M., and Jessica M. Harwood.

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Identifying Cryptic Species of Eastern Tarsiers on North Sulawesi, Indonesia *Sumampow, Thalita C. Pingkan, Paul Beier, Faith M. Walker, and Myron Shekelle. The Effect of PCR Replication on Species Richness Estimates using Environmental DNA and 16S rRNA Vertebrate Metabarcoding *Turner-Rathbone, Courtney S., Hillary L. Eaton, Matthew J. Valente, and Catherine E. Benson. Social Media Influences on Ranchers’ Perceptions of and Attitudes Toward Mexican Gray Wolves *Waters, Kaycie M., and Matthew M. Mars. Agave Restoration for Bats: Building Roots in a Changing Landscape Weeks, Althea C. I., and Helen Fitting.

FULL ABSTRACTS for presentations and posters are available online at

http://wildlife.org/nm-chapter/annual-meeting/

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