UAF Large Animal Research Station to host Birthday Bash

May 30, 2019

UAF photo by JR Ancheta. UAF veterinary medicine student Claire Squires checks the vital signs of Zari, a juvenile muskox, with classmate Billyann Monrean at UAF’s Large Animal Research Station in March 2018.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host its annual Large Animal Research Station Birthday Bash on Saturday, June 1, at the Yankovich Road facility.

The free event, which celebrates reindeer and muskoxen calves born this spring at LARS, will include food, games and crafts. Birthday cake will be served at 2 p.m. for the animals to enjoy.

A variety of information booths and activities also will be available. Participants will include UAF One Health, the UAF Department of Veterinary Medicine, Alaska One Tree, the Fairbanks Knitters Guild, the Fairbanks Weavers’ and Spinners’ Guild, Fairbanks Children’s Museum, University of Alaska Press and the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration.

Parking at LARS is limited. Visitors are encouraged to park at UAF’s Taku lot off Farmers Loop and use the free shuttle to the farm. The shuttle will run from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

For more information, email Sarah Barcalow at sebarcalow@alaska.edu.