ATLANTIC SOCIETY OF FISH AND WILDLIFE BIOLOGISTS
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Fredericton, NB
October5-7, 2005
Wednesday, October 5.
7:00 pm Icebreaker and Registration, Fredericton Inn
Thursday, October 6.
8:00-12:00 Registration, Lobby, Hugh John Flemming Complex
9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks (ASFWB President)
9:15-4:00 Presentations, KC Irving Theater
(PRESENTATIONS ARE 20 MINUTES LONG, including 15 minute talk, 5 minutes for questions; * indicates person presenting)
Presentations:
9:10
1. Brook trout stocking and angling opportunities in PEI estuaries – The Foxley River Project.
Rosanne MacFarlane.
9:30
2. Just go with the flow: Recovery from exhaustive exercise in brook trout.
*Roshini Kassie and J. D. Kieffer.
9:50
3. minimizing black bear damage to beehives in blueberry fields of Nova Scotia.
Adam Banks.
10:10 – 10:30. Coffee Break. Refreshments located in Lobby.
10:30
4. . Determining deer numbers in New Brunswick.
Rod Cumberland.
10:50
5. Wood Turtle (Clemmys insculpta) Habitat Selection and Movements in New Brunswick.
*Vanessa Roy and Graham Forbes.
11:10
6. Maintaining vertebrate wildlife on New Brunswick crown forest.
Steve Gordon and Dan Beaudette.
11:30
7. Issues and Priorities in Species Assessment.
Maureen Toner.
Lunch (11:50 – 1:00) Participants are on their own; cafeteria and restaurants nearby
1:00
8. Liming for the mitigation of acid rain in freshwater.
Thom Clair.
1:20
9. Tree and site characteristics required for the maintenance of forest-dwelling bat colonies.
*Colin J Garroway and Hugh G Broders.
1:40
10. Sea Run Trout Study, Interim data report, 2005; River Denys, Lake O’Law Brook and Cold Brook
John MacMillan and Tara Crandlemere
2:00
11. Incisor breakage within Cape Breton Highland moose (Alces alces andersoni) – Explanation for possible causation.
*Michael Clough, Marcos Zentilli, Tony Nette and Hugh G. Broders
2:20 – 3:00 Coffee Break. Refreshments located in Lobby.
3:00
12. The breeding bird atlas strategy: Local efforts with broad rewards.
Karel Allard.
3:20
13. Temporal variation in the activity of bats at two Nova Scotia hibernacula: Spring Emergence and Management Concerns.
*Bridget R. Tutty and Hugh G. Broders.
3:40
14. Factors affecting the spatio-temporal activity patterns of Eastern pipistrelles (Pipistrellus subflavus) over a large spatial scale in Southwest Nova Scotia.
*Lesley J. Corning and Hugh G. Broders.
7:00 Banquet and Silent Auction, Brass Rail, Fredericton Inn
After the Banquet
Special Presentation:
Renee Wissink, Park Ecologist, Fundy National Park.
"The Strange Case of the Eastern Panther".
Friday, October 7
8:30-9:30 Business Meeting, KC Irving Hall. Everyone welcome!
8:00-10:00 Registration, Lobby, Hugh John Flemming Complex
9:30
15. Mitigating moose-vehicle accidents in Northeast New Brunswick: An electric fence experiment.
Gerald Redmond.
9:50
16. Census of terns and other colonial waterbirds along the Gulf of St. Lawrence coast of New Brunswick – 2005.
*Andrew Boyne, Brad Toms and Julie McKnight.
10:10
17. Province-wide wet-areas mapping: a new tool for high-resolution operations planning of natural resources.
Paul A. Arp.
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break. Refreshments located in Lobby.
10:50
18. LANDSCAPES, ECOSYSTEMS AND THEIR GEOLOGICAL ROOTS.
*Toon Pronk and Serge Allard.
11:10
19. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FOREST-DEPENDENT NORTHERN LONG-EARED BAT, RELATIVE TO FOREST PATCH SIZE, COMPOSITION, AND CONTEXT.
*Lynne Henderson, Hugh Broders, Bridget Tutty, and Lesley Corning.
11:30
20. Forest Management Guidelines for Protection of Native Biodiversity in the Greater Fundy Ecosystem.
*Graham Forbes and Matt Betts.
POSTER
Influence of intensive forest management on behaviour and population dynamics of American marten.
Francois Villeneuve. Universite de Moncton, Edmunston, NB