As part of its Ralph Nuzum Lecture Series, the Kickapoo Valley Reserve will offer a program on chronic wasting disease on Wednesday, Oct. 19.

Bryan Richards, the emerging-disease coordinator at the United States Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center, will talk about disease basics, distribution of chronic wasting disease nationally and in Wisconsin, and recent scientific advances.

Refreshments will be offered and socializing will begin at 6:30 p.m., and the talk will start at 7 p.m. The program is free and open to the public.

The program will be at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Visitor Center, which is at S3661 Hwy. 131, north of La Farge.