This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely bugged

bitten in my case underwearless meat.

You can't predict anything.

So we're joined by a special guest Brian Richards that's right right you got it with the USGS

the United States Geologic Survey and at the National Wildlife Health Center at the National

Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin.

Now just to start the most basic things we're talking about wildlife disease particularly

chronic was in disease but how does how does wildlife disease sort of fall under the

the Bayloric you know how is the USGS tangled up in that because instead of because I would

hear that when I was younger and I would think that the USGS mapped mineral deposits

in the USGS is formally known as the science wing or the science bureau in the department

of the interior okay but the National Wildlife Health Center originated back in Fish and

Wildlife Service and we were removed from Fish and Wildlife Service and moved over eventually

into into USGS as part of that larger conglomerate of science.

The USGS does a lot of different things earthquake monitoring volcanoes natural hazards there's

a water science center virtually in every state that that deals with water issues but we

also do issues in environmental health biology.

So what's kind of interesting with the National Wildlife Health Center is we are a very a national

center so we deal with wildlife health issues across the country and internationally as

well.

Our main campus being in Madison, Wisconsin we have a satellite in Honolulu, Hawaii.

I've been trying for the last 12 years to get relocated out there but so far it hasn't

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