Held March 8 to 14, 2015 in Omaha, Nebraska

Contents

Plenary Session. 80th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference

Welcome and Opening Remarks, Steve Williams

It Is Going To Take All Of Us To Do It: Reflections on Past Progress and its Lesson for the Future, Paul W. Hansen

The Elements of Success in Fish and Wildlife Management: Looking Back at the Successes and Failures of Wildlife Conservation to Guide the Profession Over the Next 100 Years, Paul W. Hansen, Rollie Sparrowe, and Mark Damian Duda

The Next 100 Years, Rollin D. Sparrowe

The Challenge: Conservation in the Dynamic Environmental Context of The 21st Century, Lynn Scarlett

Special Session One. Conservation Controversies: Avoiding a House Divided

Opening Remarks, Christian A. Smith

A Way of Working: How Partnerships Can Work in Real Life, Cynthia K. Dohner, Dan L. Forster, Jeffrey M. Fleming, and Jenifer Hancock

What We've Got Here is Failure to Communicate, Dave Chadwick

Wrapping Up Partnerships With a Bow: Beautiful Packages or Rewrapped Castoffs?, Rebecca A. Humphries

Avoiding a House Divided - Closing Remarks, Ronald J. Regan

Special Session Two. The Business of Conservation: Converting Consumers to Customers

Converting Consumers to Customers: Why We Should Consider a Different Approach, Ann Forstchen and Nick Wiley

Converting Consumers’ Interest in Wildlife into Conservation Funding, Rob Southwick

The Future of Wildlife: It Starts with Non-Sportsmen, Chris Clemens

Technology Imperatives for the Future of Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting, Eric Dinger

Special Session Three. Planning for Species Sustainability: Avoiding the Need to List Under the ESA

NRCS and the Sage Grouse Initiative: 21st Century Conservation that Works, Tim Griffiths, David Naugle, and Jeremy Maestas

Focusing on Effectiveness: Credit Systems as an Approach to Driving Conservation Outcomes, Jeremy Sokulsky

The Lesser Prairie-Chicken Range-Wide Conservation Plan: A New Paradigm in Wildlife Management, William E. Van Pelt

5 Attributes of a Successful Partnership: Evaluating Conservation Efforts for the New England Cottontail, Anthony Tur, Krishna Gifford, and Wendi Weber

Special Session Four. The Evolution of Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research

Opening Comments, Dale Hall and James T. Martin

The Cooperative Research Units Model: Enabling Past and Future Science-Based Conservation, Kevin G. Whalen and John D. Thompson

Meeting Cooperator Needs: Examples from the Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Carl B. Schreck, Daniel D. Roby, Katie Dugger, and Jim Peterson

Roles of Cooperative Research Units in Contemporary Conservation of Natural Resources, David A. Haukos, Clint W. Boal, Scott Carleton, and Blake Grisham

The Future of Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research, John F. Organ, Steven A. Williams, Jonathan R. Mawdsley, Eric M. Hallerman, Douglas J. Austen, Byron K. Williams, Paul Souza, and Anne Kinsinger

Closing Remarks: Cooperative Research Units: Getting Ready for the Future, James T. Martin

Workshop. Urban Wildlife Conservation in Cities and Suburbs: Pollinators, Agriculture, and the Great Midwest

Bees, Flowers, and People in Urban-Agricultural-Wildland Interfaces, Gordon Frankie, Sara Leon Guerrero, Jaime Pawelek, Robbin Thorp, Mary Schindler, Rollin Coville, Mark Rizzardi, Marylee Guinon, and Laura Ward

Urban Pollinator Conservation in the U.S. State Wildlife Action Plans, Jonathan R. Mawdsley and Kristal Stoner

Wildlife Management at the Urban-Agricultural Interface: Science You Can Use, Gary Bentrup

Planting Natives: A Preview of a New Mobile Tool, Naomi Edelson

Workshop. Women's Wildlife Conservation Network Workshop: Recruiting Female Natural Resource Leaders

Kara Teising, Jackie Mildner, Jodi Hilty, and Naomi Edelson