December 4, 2025 8:02 am
Outdoors 
Veterinary students and scientists look over elk hooves recovered from a harvested elk. Research continues in an attempt to understand how Treponema Associated Hoof Disease infects elk in the wild. (WSU College of Veterinary Medicine)
The Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine is leading the research into the hoof disease affecting local elk herds. Dr. Margaret Wild, the lead scientists, is planning to retire from that effort soon.
Ongoing research concerning Treponema Associated Hoof disease continues. Here elk hooves from a hunter harvested deer are examined for signs of the disease. (Photos courtesy WSU College of Veterinary Medicine)
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Dr. Margaret Wild, the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine scientist heading up the effort to study hoof disease in elk, will soon be retiring.
She recently summed up what that effort has accomplished, as well as the next steps she sees as necessary to move forward the management of the disease.
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