WRA Supports The Wildlife Society-Western Section Annual Meeting 2026

WRA is honored to again sponsor the Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society-Western Section February 2-7, 2024 in Monterey, California. This year’s theme is “Success: A Journey, Not a Destination”. WRA experts are excited for this year’s program and you can find them throughout the week chairing sessions, presenting on a wide variety of topics, and at our exhibitor table!

Wednesday, February 4

• Marisa Ishimatsu and Darwin Mayhew will co-present in the Innovative Techniques session at 2:25 pm, “Burrow Excavations: An Updated Review of a Common Take Avoidance Measure For Federally Threatened California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense)”.

Thursday, February 5

• Katie Smith, PhD will present in the Ecology and Conservation of Small Mammals session at 9:45 am, “An Investigation of Demographics of the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse Throughout the Species Range and Related Conservation and Management Implications”. Katie will also Chair the History of Mammals session starting at 1:30 pm. 
• Rob Schell will present in the Stakeholders and Policy session at 10:50 am, “A tale of two ponds. How a localized extirpation morphed into a regional recovery action for CRLF in Solano County”.
• Katie Smith and Carla Angulo are co-authors on the presentation by Christian Valdes in the History of Mammals session at 2:55 pm, “Habitat Use in a Highly Invaded Marsh: Do salt marsh harvest mice prefer invasive plant species over pickleweed?”
• Carla Angulo will present in the Natural History of Mammals session at 3:05 pm, “Best Practices in Exclusion Fencing for Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse”.

Poster Session

• Katie Smith and Carla Angulo are co-authors on the poster by Deepshika Shankar, “Novel Foraging Behaviors of Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse and Competitors”.

Details of the meeting program are available on the event website. To learn more about our services, visit our Expertise page. See you in Monterey!