ANNUAL WILDLIFE SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 11:30 AM–4:00 PM

11:00 am–11:30 am Pre-symposium Meet and Greet

11:30 am–11:45 am Introduction and California Central Coast Chapter TWS Annual Business Meeting

11:45 am–12:10 pm Modeling Wildlife Habitat and Connectivity By Jamie Miller, Renee Albrecht, Becky Clow, Nelson Gould, and

Robert Saldivar

12:10 pm–12:25 pm Wildlife Impacts from Recreational Activity in Response to COVID-19 By Saul Garcia and

Christy Wyckoff

12:25 pm–12:40 pm Your Distance Matters: Investigating the

energetic cost of human disturbance to sea otters

By Heather Barrett

12:40 pm–12:55 pm Foothill Yellow-legged Frog Reintroduction

Feasibility Assessment for the Southwestern Clade

By Andrea Adams and Sarah Kupferberg

12:55 pm–1:10 pm A New Player on the Block: the California Central Coast Joint Venture. By Connor Jandreau

1:10 pm–1:20 pm BREAK

1:20 pm–1:45 pm San Joaquin Kit Fox Use of the California

Valley Solar Ranch: the Results of a 3-year Focal Study

By Jacquelyn Maher, Brian Boroski, and Robyn Powers

1:45 pm–2:00 pm Nest Boxes in a Semi-urban Park: What Can the Birds Tell Us About Land Management? By Amanda Preece

2:00 pm–2:10 pm What Does the Timing of Barn Owl Feeding

Patterns Tell Us About the Species and Their Prey?

By Elihu Gevirtz

2:10 pm–2:25 pm Coprophagy by Herbivorous Fishes in the Caribbean By Abigail Siebert

2:25 pm–2:35 pm Comparison of California Bat Species Richness at Urban and Natural Sites During Migration

and Winter Season By Hannah Carrell

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2:35 pm–2:45 pm BREAK

2:45 pm–3:00 pm Chorro Creek Floodplain Restoration By Carolyn Geraghty

3:00 pm–3:25 pm The Fisheye and the Laser: Assessing

Overwintering Monarch Butterfly Habitat from Below and Above Using Hemispherical

Photography and LiDAR By Stuart Weiss

3:25 pm–3:40 pm The Breeding Phenology of Wildlife on The Santa Lucia Preserve By Alicia Khuon and

Christy Wyckoff

3:40 pm–3:55 pm Age and Growth of the Pismo clam (Tivela stultorum) in California By Noel Clark

3:55 pm–4:00 pm BREAK

4:00 pm–5:00 pm

Happy Hour Social Hosted by

Because it's tradition, Wildnote has figured out a way to host a "Happening Online Happy Hour" to wrap up TWS CCCC Symposium 2020! David Lee and David Kisner will be entertaining us with stories from the field and short presentations. Fast, accurate answers to trivia questions will be rewarded with gift certificates to local breweries for growlers of your favorite brew and coveted Wildnote swag. And if you stick around until the end, you could be the lucky winner who gets a pizza delivered right to your door!

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The California Central Coast Chapter is holding a fundraiser to assist with treatment of and further research on sarcoptic mange on the federally threatened San Joaquin kit fox. Please donate towards the San Joaquin kit fox conservation fund or buy a shirt today! All proceeds will go to the California Living Museum (CALM) in Bakersfield, California which takes in, treats, and rehabilitates infected foxes for release back into the wild. Go to: https://www.bonfire.com/save-the-san-joaquin-kit-fox/