Announcement Archive

2025

July 16, 2025

The Utah Chapter of the Wildlife Society is offering two $550 travel scholarships to support student members attending the 2025 TWS Annual Conference in Edmonton. These funds are intended to help offset travel and registration costs.

Applicants must:

Be members of the Utah Chapter of the Wildlife Society (Note: please contact Rusty Robinson at evenyearboard@uttws.com for membership inquiries).
Be currently enrolled in a degree program related to wildlife, fisheries, ecology, environmental science, or a related field in Utah.
Submit a statement of interest (500 words or less) describing their involvement in wildlife science/management/conservation, how they plan to participate in the conference, and what they hope to gain from the experience.

While not required, strong preference will be given to students who have had an abstract accepted for a poster or oral presentation.

The deadline to submit applications is Monday, August 4. Travel grant decisions will be made by Monday, August 18. Applications can be sent to Jordan Herman at secretary@uttws.com.

June 13, 2025

The Utah Chapter of the Wildlife Society is excited to announce that we've been hard at work planning the 2026 Annual Meeting. Mark your calendars! Join us March 11-13th. Location details coming soon!

This years meeting theme is:

Making an Impact: Advancing Wildlife Management and Conservation through Innovation

Registration information and other meeting details will be updated on our website soon.

If you'd like to receive the latest updates and newsletter, please reach out to secretary@uttws.com to subscribe. Send a blank email with "Subscribe to newsletter" in the subject line.

Have questions? Contacts us: board@uttws.com.

March 12, 2025

Its time to visit Price, Utah! Visit the Annual Meeting page for more information about what to expect during the 2025 Utah Chapter Meeting (March 12-15). The website has been recently updated with a number of helpful resources that will help you make the most of your time with us.

Please reach out to the board@uttws.com with any questions.

January 30, 2025

Registration for our annual meeting is now open!

Visit the meeting page for additional information

uttws.com/annual-meeting

We are still accepting:

Annual Awards Nominations -

Nominations for Board Positions -

New Sponsors/Donations in Kind

We are no longer accepting Conference Abstracts and Workshop topics. Please consider presenting in 2026!

2024:

March 18, 2024

Thank you for attending the 2024 Utah TWS Annual Meeting!

We will share some pictures of the meeting in the spring newsletter, as well as the award winners for the photo contest.

Scholarships

We raised over $7,000 for student scholarships! Students, please consider applying for the UT TWS grants-in-aid, which offers scholarships to students performing wildlife research. Applications can be sent to contact@uttws.com by Friday, March 29, 2024.

Award Winners

- Student poster, Mallory Hinton (BYU)

- Non-student poster, Jens Ammon (Sageland Collaborative)

- Student oral presentation, Madison Huie (BYU)

- Non-student oral presentation, Ginger Stout (UDWR)

Elected Board Members:

- President-elect, Sydney Lamb (UDWR)

- Secretary, Jordan Herman (Hawkwatch International)

- Even-year board member, Rusty Robinson (UDWR)

- Treasurer, Ron Steiner (UDOT)

January 15, 2024

Registration is NOW OPEN!

Please see our updated conference page for a link to the registration page and more information!

Note from the board: We have extended the Abstract Submission deadline until January 22, 2024 for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Utah Chapter of the Wildlife Society!

Looking forward to seeing you in Kanab, Utah!

Sept 25, 2023

The Utah Chapter of the Wildlife Society is excited to announce that we've been hard at work planning the 2024 Annual Meeting. Mark your calendars!

Join us March 13-15 in beautiful Kanab, Utah.

This years meeting theme is:

Partnerships

Managing Wildlife Better Together

Registration information and other meeting details will be updated on our website soon.

Have questions? Contacts us: board@uttws.com

2023:

November 17, 2023

Fall Newsletter has just dropped! 🍂🍃 View Newsletter Here!

We are now inviting submissions for Workshops, and Abstracts for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Utah Chapter of the Wildlife Society. This meeting will take place March 13-15 in Kanab, Utah at The Kanab Center. The theme of this years meeting is: Partnerships: managing wildlife better together. Visit our updated conference website for more information!

Registration opens January 1, 2024 - Link will be posted to uttws.com and mailed to our current list

2023 UTTWS Fall Newsletter.pdf

June 12, 2023

Reminder to sign up for this upcoming webinar:

The Role and Relevance of Wildlife Damage Management for Wildlife Students and Professionals

When: Jun 29, 2023 02:00 PM Eastern Time (12 pm MST)

Link to webinar registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MOKu2RwfRp6Ebfy-AI2yqw

Sign up for the Wildlife Society Wildlife Damage Management Working Group’s first webinar ever! WDMWG Board Member Jon Cepek and WDMWG Past-Chair Travis DeVault (CWB®) will introduce the field of wildlife damage management and explain its relevance through several examples of research and management projects they have experienced during their combined 50+ years working to understand and resolve human-wildlife conflicts by partnering with federal, state, and local agencies and universities. *Webinars will be recorded an posted to www.wildlife.org in the weeks following the event.*

To see more information about this event visit the announcement on Wildlife.org:

https://wildlife.org/events/event/the-role-and-relevance-of-wildlife-damage-management-for-wildlife-students-and-professionals/

To view recordings and content from past webinars visit:

https://wildlife.org/events/?_sft_event-category=webinar

May 15, 2023

International Urban Wildlife Conference

June 4 - 7, 2023

Hamilton Hotel, Washington DC

See the full conference program here: https://www.urban-wildlife.org/program-1

There's still time to register! https://www.urban-wildlife.org/registration

Our discounted hotel block ends on Friday so act soon! https://www.urban-wildlife.org/hotel

Please contact Maureen Murray (maureenmurray@lpzoo.org) with any questions.

May 15, 2023

Last Week to Apply for 2023 Grants-in-Aid!

There were some technical difficulties with the grants-in-aid application submissions, so we have decided to reopen the applications until Friday, May 19th. Please view the application instructions on our website and send your application to contact@uttws.com by the deadline.

Note to applicants: If you previously applied, please resubmit an application. We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for understanding!

To learn more visit: https://wildlife.org/utah/annual-meeting/grants-in-aid

May 11, 2023

The Utah Chapter of The Wildlife Society 2023 Spring newsletter, and the Central Mountains & Plains Section 2023 Spring newsletter are now avaliable online.

Click here to visit the Newsletter Archive

2023 TWS Spring Newsletter.pdf

CMPS-Spring2023.pdf

May 11, 2023

CMPS is seeking candidates to fill the President-elect position and two Member At-large positions (see below for position descriptions). All positions are 2-year terms. Nominations are due by June 1, 2023.

If you are interested in running for a position, please contact Carl Bowden (elections@cmps-tws.org)

Please strongly consider serving at the Section level for TWS.

PRESIDENT-ELECT. The President-Elect shall assist the President in administration of Section affairs and shall perform any duties assigned by the President. The President-Elect shall chair the Mission and Strategic Plan Review Committee.
MEMBERS AT-LARGE. Members At-large shall assist in the general administration of Section business affairs.

More information on the responsibilities of CMPS Board positions and committees can be found in the CMPS bylaws: https://wildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/CMPS-Bylaws-2017-5-2_updated-punctuation.pdf

Fore More information visit: https://wildlife.org/CMP

January 5, 2023

Registration is Open!

The Colorado Chapter, Utah Chapter and Central Mountain Plains Section of the Wildlife Society is scheduled for March 8th - 10th in Grand Junction, Colorado. Register before February 1st, 2023 to take advantage of the early bird registration rates! To learn more about the conference agenda, hotel options, and for other updates, please CLICK HERE

2022:

December 17, 2022

Call For Abstracts!

Submit abstracts on related topics now through February 1, 2023. Please see the CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for more information on presentations and how to submit abstracts. The abstract submission form is available HERE.

October 11, 2022

Save The Date

We are excited to announce that we will be working with the Colorado Chapter of the Wildlife Society to host a joint annual meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado, at the Grand Junction Convention Center.

This in-person event theme is “Tails and Trails: Wildlife-Human Dynamics in the Changing West”. At the 2023 annual meeting for CCTTWS and UTTWS, our plenary session will address the challenges and opportunities of recreation and wildlife-human dynamics agains the backdrop of a changing west and drought fueled climate change. In addition, we will offer workshopes, IGNITE Sessions, a poster session, photo contest, a contributed papers session, a networking event, a student and professional networking breakfast, and our annual banquet with professional awards and an auction. Be sure to SAVE THE DATES and look for updates on lodging and registration details in the upcoming newsletter and on our webpage.

February 28, 2022

Our Auction page is live!

Stop by and check out some of the great items we have in store for you this year

and make sure to purchase your raffle tickets!

Special thanks to our wonderful sponsors for their generous donations.

Registration is still open and the program for the 2022 meeting is now available.

January 26, 2022

Registration is open! Through February 11th, we are offering early bird registration. $10 off our professional and student pricing. If applicable, please include your annual chapter dues.

But wait... there's more!

The Photo Contest is open for submissions for all UT TWS members. You can enter up to NINE photos.

Let's see what you've got!

January 11, 2022

We're Going Virtual

We're making our annual meeting even easier to attend! With the recent COVID surge, the 2022 annual meeting will now take place online. As disappointed as we are to not be meeting in person yet again, we have already begun planning a virtual experience you will not want to miss. There will be games, giveaways, breakout sessions and more! Details to come.

Thank you to everyone that attended the 2019 Utah Chapter of The Wildlife Society Meeting in Springdale.

Congratulations to our 2019 award winners.

Award of Excellence: Dr. Terry Messmer
Award of Merit: Covy Jones, Mary Pendergast, Kendall Bagley
Certificate of Appreciation: Cooper Farr

Congratulations to our 2019 paper and poster winners.

Professional Paper : Janice Gardner for Rapid stream-riparian assessment: An effective method for monitoring and assessing stream health
Student Paper : Ethan Hammer for Remote camera surveys to inventory and monitor wildlife in Cedar Breaks National Monument
Poster:
- Sydney Lamb (1st) for Bambi, how fat is your mother?
- Heather Shipp (Tie 2nd) for Monitoring rare plant species and habitat use by ungulates in the Tushar Mountains.
- Danielle Finlayson (Tie 2nd) for An inventory and assessment of natural springs in Utah’s Great Basin: Factors associated with wildlife diversity.

Congratulations to our 2019 student scholarship winners!!!!

Sydney Lamb from BYU ($2,000) for her work on Maternal effects on fawn survival in Northern Utah.
Emma Doden from USU ($1,500) for her work on Comparing resident and translocated beaver ecology at stream restoration sites.
Hailey Wayment from USU ($1,000) for her work on Greater sage-grouse responses to livestock grazing in semi-arid sagebrush rangelands.

Photo contest winners were:

Wildlife: Daniel Kimball
Landscape: Jason Wood
Biologists at Work: Jason Wood

2021:

March 2021

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our Virtual 2021 Annual Meeting this year. We feel it was a great success, in light of COVID-19 limitations. We hope that next year we will be able to meet face to face!

Congratulations to our 2021 paper and poster winners. and recognize the award winners this year and our newly elected board members.

Professional Paper: Simona Picardi
Student Paper: Kristin Engebretsen
Poster: Cal DeBerard

Congratulations to our 2021 logo redesign winner!

Matt Webster

Congratulations to our 2021 student scholarship winners!!!!

Megan Kepas (1st)
Nathan Floyd (Tie 2nd)
Veronica Winter (Tie 2nd)

Congratulations to our 2021 newly elected board members.

President Elect: Makeda Hanson
Odd-year Board Member: Tal Avgar

2020:

The 2020 Annual Meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Chapter would like to congratulate the award winners this year. They will be recognized at next year’s banquet.

Congratulations to our 2020 award winners.

Award of Excellence: Dr. Thomas C. Edwards for his many accomplishments in both research, service, and contributions to wildlife resources, spanning both research and management.
Award of Merit: John Luft for his work as manager of GSLEP.
Conservation Achievement Award: Miles Moretti for his work as CEO of the Mule Deer Foundation the past 14 years.

Congratulations to our 2020 student scholarship winners!!!!

Kristin Engebretsen from USU (1st)
Marshall Wolf from USU (2nd)
Austin Green from U of U (3rd)
Daniel Sallee from BYU (4th)

Congratulations to our 2020 newly elected board members.

President: Blair Stringham
Treasurer: Jace Taylor
Even-year Board Member: Julie Young
Secretary: Natasha Hadden
Webmaster: Joy Kaseke

We would also like to thank everyone who participated in the online silent auction to help raise funds for next year’s scholarships.

June 13, 2025

This years meeting theme is:

Making an Impact: Advancing Wildlife Management and Conservation through Innovation

Registration information and other meeting details will be updated on our website soon.

If you'd like to receive the latest updates and newsletter, please reach out to secretary@uttws.com to subscribe. Send a blank email with "Subscribe to newsletter" in the subject line.

Have questions? Contacts us: board@uttws.com.

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