Wildlife Health Lab
Shooting Range in Fort Collins, CO
Address
Fort Collins
Contact:
Staff
Karen Fox - Wildlife Pathologist
Karen Griffin - Molecular Diagnostics Technologist
Maicie Lingwall – Wildlife Health Facilities Manager
Pauline Nol - Field Wildlife Veterinarian
Ian Smith – Field Capture Technician
Daniel Tripp – Wildlife Disease Researcher
Mary Wood – State Wildlife Veterinarian/Wildlife Health Program Leader
Wildlife Health Lab
Shooting Range in Fort Collins, CO
Address
Fort Collins
Contact:
Staff
Karen Fox - Wildlife Pathologist
Karen Griffin - Molecular Diagnostics Technologist
Maicie Lingwall – Wildlife Health Facilities Manager
Pauline Nol - Field Wildlife Veterinarian
Ian Smith – Field Capture Technician
Daniel Tripp – Wildlife Disease Researcher
Mary Wood – State Wildlife Veterinarian/Wildlife Health Program Leader
RESEARCH FACILITY
About the Lab
The Wildlife Health Section is a group of veterinarians, researchers and technicians dedicated to diagnosing, monitoring and conducting research on diseases of free-ranging wildlife in Colorado. The Foothill Wildlife Research Facility maintains numerous species of wildlife utilized in research projects and for teaching purposes.
Wildlife Research
What We Do
Working in concert with agency biologists and managers, we focus our work on issues that affect the long-term health and viability of wildlife populations. Additionally, we develop tools and methodologies to facilitate improved research and safe and humane wildlife capture, handling, and monitoring. This work is augmented by the Foothills Wildlife Research Facility where numerous species of wildlife are maintained for research and teaching purposes. In-house molecular diagnostics and necropsy services are utilized to support our efforts to deliver a coordinated and systematic approach to wildlife health.
Research is being conducted on diseases that affect the long term survival of wildlife populations or prevent the growth of wildlife populations such as pneumonia in bighorn sheep, plague in prairie dogs and chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose.
Diagnostic services are available to determine the cause of death of wildlife throughout Colorado.
Video: "Studying Bats on Colorado's Western Slope" - CPW
SPOTLIGHT
Featured Project
Unlike bats that hibernate in caves in eastern North America, most bats in Colorado hibernate in rock crevices found in cliffs, rocky outcroppings, or talus slopes. Biologists hope to learn if these crevice-dwelling bats are affected by white-nose syndrome (WNS) -- a fungal disease that has killed millions of bats across North America. Bats provide a huge benefit to our ag community by removing metric tons of insects each year. Projects like this will help to assess the vulnerability of Colorado’s bat populations to white-nose syndrome.
Wildlife Health Research
Research Library
The Research Library was created in the late 1960s to provide support primarily to the wildlife research sections. The Research Library evolved to serve the broader information management needs of CPW staff. Library collections are focused on wildlife ecology and associated ecological information and CPW public historical records such as Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting agendas and minutes.
Meet the Team
Karen Fox
- Wildlife Pathologist
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Karen Griffin
- Molecular Diagnostics Technologist
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Maicie Lingwall
- Wildlife Health Facilities Manager
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Pauline Nol
- Field Wildlife Veterinarian
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Ian Smith
- Field Capture Technician
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Daniel Tripp
- Wildlife Disease Researcher
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Mary Wood
- State Wildlife Veterinarian/Wildlife Health Program Leader
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife