The Westin Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, will host the 76th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, officially from March 15 to 18, 2011.

The 76th Conference will feature celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Wildlife Management Institute, founded in 1911 (first, as the American Game Protective and Propagation Association), and the administrator of the annual North American Conference since its inception in 1915.

The North American was last held in Kansas City in March 1983. It is indelibly remembered by veteran attendees for its banquet entertainment?most notably the entire drum and bugle corps of the Kansas City Marching Cobras in the ballroom of the Radisson (now Marriott) Muehlbach Hotel. The otherwise-celebrated Cobras reportedly will still be performing in 2011...but not at the 76th Conference.

Just last month, the site of the 75th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference was announced?Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the official dates of March 23-26, 2010.