We've admitted over 10,000 animals since 2010 alone.  Having our "hands" on so many local wildlife gives us a unique window into the region's overall health and current challenges in real time.  Baseline, illness/disease, and introduced challenge data collecting allows us to see trends over time, and begin to inform and assist local community leaders, wildlife management agencies, landowners, and land trusts with conservation and protection efforts.  Some of our data has been used to:
 

• Educate local groups such as Rotarians or Audubon Societies on the effects of domestic cats on local wildlife

• Assist a conservation commission's effort to ban the use of rodenticides in their town

• Provide compelling data on changing nesting seasons in our region for large scale conservation efforts

• Track historic and missing data of hibernating and maternity locations for local (imperiled) bat species

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Time and resources to perform research can be challenging, but partnerships, grants, and restricted funding has helped us collaborate on multiple research projects.  These projects contribute to the greater wildlife medical care field, can improve patient care, and can help spread awareness or ultimately hopefully prevent injuries and illness to local wildlife at the hands of humans.  Here are a few of our ongoing research projects.

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