Wildlife Professional & Student Education 

The Arkansas Chapter of The Wildlife Society held its Annual Meeting on March 11, 2021. Like many meetings across the nation, the Chapter meeting was virtual. The Wildlife Society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

To keep current about wildlife management and conservation in the state, professionals and students present the latest research, education, and policy at the annual meeting. 

Professionals Presentations

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The Wildlife Conservation initiative: a collaborative approach to species conservation, by Richard Stich.

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Current distribution and relative abundance of eastern spotted skunks across their range, by Roger R. Perry.

Students Presentations

A head of a coyote to the left with woods in background and a time/date stamp on the bottom suggesting image was taken with a trail camera

Wildlife among us: preliminary results from the first two seasons of the central Arkansas urban wildlife project, by Lauren Berry.

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Does Bergman’s rule apply to North American birds in the context of climate change? by Caitlin De Bellis.

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Influences on interior least tern (Sternula antillarum antillarum) colony success: site features, disturbances, and predation, by Carice Godbey.

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Distribution and day roosting preferences of eastern small-footed bats in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas, by Valerie Kearny.

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Estimating abundance of spiny softshell (Apolone spinifera) and Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta) turtles in the delta regions of Arkansas, by Andrhea Massey.

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Conservation genetics of the imperiled collared lizards of Arkansas, by Whitney A. Murchison.

Araks Ohanyan holding a bird, and other images of birds being viewed for parasites, plumage, etc.

Habitat use of nonbreeding Rusty Blackbirds in Arkansas, by Araks Ohanyan.

Young man in cap and camoflague looking at a dead mallard in a laboratory

Survival of the fattest: overwintering Mallard body mass trends in the Arkansas alluvial valley from 1979-2021, by John Veon.