

Dr. Michelle Oakley is the only all-species vet for hundreds of miles in the Yukon Territory in Northern Canada, and she runs her animal clinic in the village of Haines Junction.
An Indiana-native, she earned her undergraduate degree in zoology at the University of Michigan. While studying there, she took her first trip to the Yukon as a field assistant on an arctic ground squirrel ecology study. During that trip, she met and fell in love with local wildland firefighter Shane Oakley, who kept referring to her as "squirrel girl." After marrying Shane, she graduated from Atlantic Veterinary College in 2000 with a doctorate in veterinary medicine, and shortly after that worked for 9 years as the wildlife veterinarian & regional biologist for Yukon's Fish & Wildlife department. Dr. Oakley also interned at the Calgary Zoo, where she regularly returns to provide relief vet services. She works as an on-call vet for the Yukon Wildlife Preserve, the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, and the American Bald Eagle Foundation. She runs specialized wildlife capture and conservation programs throughout Canada, and also in Scandinavia, Sri Lanka and Europe.
What she does?
She can perform surgeries on bears, hunt down sick endangered animals or anesthetize with a dart a bison. And taking care of the farm animals that requires her help.
Personally i like her job because she is able to interact, even indirectly, with bears. I love bears and one day i hope to work with bears and learn more about them.