National Pheasant Technical Committee Meeting

National Wild Pheasant Technical Committee Meeting

October 10-13

Maumee Bay Lodge and Conference Center

Located in Maumee Bay State Park

1750 State Park Road #2

Oregon, OH 43616

Host: Ohio Division of Wildlife

Tuesday – October 10

Travel Day – Dinner on your own

Wednesday – October 11

Continental Breakfast: 7:30 – 8:00

8:00-8:30 – Welcome

8:30-10:00 – NWPTC Coordinator Update

·         Summary of Management Board meeting decisions/discussions

·         Potential partnership with the states and PFQF for CRP monitoring and assessment

·         Review of habitat return-on-investment decision support tool and next steps

·         Review of brood detection probability and population estimation tool and next steps

·         Potential model for estimating CRP haying and grazing effects on pheasant productivity and abundance

·         Offline delivery of higher functioning data analysis and interpretation tools with R and RStudio

·         Creation of task-oriented Technical Committee working groups

·         Monthly Technical Committee videoconferences – adjustments needed?

·         Potential Pheasant Fest seminar speakers needed this March in Sioux Falls

10:00-10:30 – Break

10:30-11:00 – “Autonomous Recording Units as a Method of Indexing Breeding Pheasant

Abundance” – Ian Dwight

11:00–11:30 – “Monitoring for Northern Bobwhites on the landscape-scale in southern

Iowa” – Riggs Wilson – Iowa State University

11:30–11:50 – PATH Program in South Dakota – Matt Gottlob – Pheasants Forever

11:50–12:00 – “Texas RFP – Ring-Necked Pheasant Ecology in the High Plains of Texas” –

John Mclaughlin – Texas Parks and Wildlife

12:00–1:00 – Lunch – provided

1:00–1:30 – “Mapping Functional Connectivity of Ring-necked Pheasant in Ohio”

                              Grant Ravary – Ohio State University

1:30–2:00 – “Ideas for the future: near real-time upland vegetation monitoring in earth

engine” – Ian Dwight

2:00–2:30 – “Prioritizing land for strategic pheasant habitat conservation”  

Allison Barg – University of Nebraska

2:30–3:00 – Break

3:00–3:30 – “Ohio Landowner – Hunter Access Partnership”

Dave Kohler – Ohio Division of Wildlife

3:30–4:00 – “H2Ohio” –  Joseph Lauenbach – Ohio Division of Wildlife

4:00–5:00 – NWPTC Coordinator Update continued

Thursday – October 12

8:00-5:00 – Field Tour - Lunch provided

Social – Dinner provided

Friday – October 13

7:30-8:00 Breakfast - provided

8:00-10:00 – NWPTC Coordinator Update continued

10:00-10:15 – Break

10:15-11:00 – State Reports

11:00-12:00 – NWPTC Business Meeting

If you can not attend in Person, Join on your computer, mobile app or room device through Microsoft Teams.
Links for the meetings will be sent in the confirmation email following registration.