Wednesday, February 25
10:00 am - noon	SAF Executive Committee Meeting
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	SAF Business Meeting
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TWS Business Meeting
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Registration in Hotel Lobby
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Evening Reception - drinks and food provided
Thursday, February 26
7:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:00 am	Introductions and Welcome
8:15 am	The Challenges of White-tailed Deer Management from an Ecosystem Perspective Gary Alt, Gary Alt Consulting, Lagunitas, CA
9:15 am	Urban Deer Management Jay Boulanger, Cornell University
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	Quality Deer Management – Application in the Midwest Kip Adams, Northern Director of Education & Outreach, Quality Deer Management Association
11:15 am	How Can Emerging Diseases Impact Deer Management? Successes and failures of disease management in wildlife – CWD in Wisconsin as an example. Tim VanDeelen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
noon	Buffet Lunch
1:15 pm	Indirect effects of overabundant white-tailed deer in forests: suppression of unbrowsed native species and facilitation of invaders Susan Kalisz, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA
2:00 pm	Treating the problem and not the symptoms: fertility control in urban deer Jay Kirkpatrick, Science and Conservation Center, Billings, MT
2:45 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Overbrowsing legacies in forest understories: Results from small- to large-scale experiments in Pennsylvania. Alejandro A. Royo, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Irvine, PA
4:00 pm	Strategies in Changing Deer Management Policy Gary Alt, Gary Alt Consulting, Lagunitas, CA
4:45 pm	Suburban Encroachment: Or How to Educate the White-Tail Deer to Obey Traffic Signals Rick Ainsworth, Manager, Relations and Staff Development, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance
5:30 pm	Free Time
6:30 pm	Dinner
Friday, February 27
7:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:00 am	How should we respond to More Deer, Fewer Hunters and Less Access? Delwin Benson, Colorado State University
8:45 am	The Dynamics of White-tailed Deer Demographic and Movements Patterns Throughout the Midwest Rique Campa, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
9:30 am	A tug of war: human dimensions of deer management in the Midwest Shaun Riley, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
10:15 am	Break
10:45 am	Deer Management Issues for State Governments TBA
12:00	Adjourn

 

• The Nature Conservancy in Indiana
• Department of Forestry & Natural Resources. Purdue University
• School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University
• Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center

• Indiana chapter of the Wildlife Society
• Indiana chapter of the Society of American Foresters