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A healthy future for wildlife, people, and planet.

Student in the field with conservation dog
Wildlife Medicine The Student Experience
Working Dogs for Conservation
Student Support Fund
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Student Experience
Scent Wheel
Olfactometer
Black Bear
Wolf
Mink
Otter
Spotted Skunk
Wildlife Disease
Wildlife Population Health
Wild Bear
Bear Population
Population Health
Public Policy
WD4C
Endangered Animal Detection
Anti-Poaching
Invasive Species Management
Conservation
Fieldwork
One Health
Pepperweed
Skeletonweed
Indigenous Communities
Mycoplasma
Wild Sheep
Wild Ungulates
Black-Footed Ferret
Black-foot Reservation

Exploring One Health Perspectives with Working Dogs for Conservation (WD4C)

October 12, 2026
Though I feared the rain would muffle my call, seconds later I heard the tinkling bear bell, followed by a feathery flag whirling above the shrubs—that is, the tail of a very special dog....
Anna is wearing a hat while riding in a boat and smiling at the camera.
Wildlife Medicine Aquatic Animal Health The Student Experience
College of Veterinary Medicine
Wildlife Veterinarian
Student Experience
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Student Experiential Learning
Student
Student Support Fund
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Alligators
Veterinary Career
Conservation Career
Veterinary Externship
Texas
Mule Deer
Aoudad
Mycoplasma
M. ovi
Bighorn Sheep
Habitat Loss
wildlife tracking
Native Wildlife
Human-Wildlife Conflict
Hunting
Policy
Public Policy
Pittman-Robertson Act
Habitat Restoration
Hunter Education
Hunters
Deer
CWD
Chronic Wasting Disease
Animal Disease
Cattle
Jake Holshuh
Student Learning
Student Support

Veterinary Conservation in Action: Experiential Learning with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

November 24, 2025
Veterinary medicine offers a wide range of career paths and options, and one of the most interesting and often overlooked is that of a state wildlife veterinarian....
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
Wildlife Veterinarian
Wildlife Population Health
Free-ranging Wildlife Disease
One Health
Career Pathway
Nevada Department of Wildlife
Nevada
Bighorn Sheep
Elk
Bear Release
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....