FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The Wild Trout XI: Looking Back and Moving Forward October 1 - 4, 2013 Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park, USA
The Wild Trout Symposium brings together a broad and diverse audience of governmental agencies, non-profit conservation groups, media representatives, educators, anglers, fishing guides, and business interests associated with trout fisheries to exchange technical information and viewpoints on wild trout management and related public policy. Held every 3 years, each symposium has led to innovative wild trout management approaches. Wild Trout XI offers a unique forum for professionals and anglers to interact, and where participants are exposed to the latest wild trout science, technology and philosophies. This conference will equip participants to better manage, preserve, and restore these significant but declining resources. The symposium plenary session will begin by looking back on the history of wild trout research and management, both in terms of past science and the nearly four-decade lifespan of the Wild Trout Symposiums themselves, and wrap up with a look forward to where wild trout management is headed. The following topics are of particular interest to the organizing committee and may be developed as entire sessions, given sufficient interest. However, presentations on all aspects of wild trout research, management, conservation, education, and recreation are welcome and will be considered in the call for papers: Proposed session topics:  Non-trout salmonids  Wild trout socioeconomics: understanding a diverse group of users and values  Special regulations: have we gone full circle or have some issues never gone away?  Taxonomic, phylogenic, and genetic tools for wild trout management  Wild trout population monitoring techniques including further understanding of impacts of global climate change, population dynamics, and evolutionary ecology  Struggling with invasive species  Stressors to, and restoration of, wild trout habitats what have we learned and what do we need to know?  Brook trout research and management across the species historic and introduced range  Role of ecological resilience in wild trout persistence and management, using the past to inform the future Additional session topics will be added based on the papers that are submitted. Presentations will be accepted in oral or poster format. Please note the authors who are selected for oral presentations at the symposium must submit a complete manuscript ready for Symposium Proceedings publication by June 1, 2013. Successful applicants will receive further information upon acceptance of their paper. Complete abstract preparation guidelines and online submission forms can be found at: www.wildtroutsymposium.org Deadline for abstract submission: February 1, 2013 For additional information, contact one of the Program Committee Co-chairs: Jacob Rash Jason Burckhardt North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Wyoming Game and Fish Department Tele: 828-659-3324 ext. 225 Tele: 307-527-7125 Email: jacob.r...@ncwildlife.org Email: jason.burckha...@wyo.gov www.wildtroutsymposium.org
