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Wildlife Medicine Wildlife Pathology The Student Experience
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Wildlife Epidemiology

Collaborations Across Ecosystems Support Wildlife Population Health in California

May 11, 2026 by Victoria Priester
California is home to an extensive array of landscapes and wildlife: deserts with bighorn sheep and kit foxes, coastlines home to marine mammals and shorebirds, dense mountain forests hiding prowling mountain lions, and mountain meadows where wolf packs run....
Biological check station for chronic wasting disease
Wildlife Medicine The Student Experience
Chronic Wasting Disease
Disease Surveillance
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Student Support Fund
Student Support
Cornell Wildlife Health Center Student Support Fund
Wildlife
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Free-ranging Wildlife Disease
One Health
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Nevada Department of Wildlife
Nevada
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Elk
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Fieldwork
Spruce Grouse
Mycoplasma
Mule Deer

Deer Brains and Duck Botulism: A Month with Nevada’s State Wildlife Veterinarian

March 03, 2025
After reading the alumni spotlight on Nate LaHue, DVM ‘13, during my second year of veterinary school, I knew I wanted to explore wildlife work in a government agency and decided to reach out....