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