Colorado Companies Team Up With U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to Protect Black-Footed Ferret
PR Newswire - 11/05/2009
The endangered black-footed ferrets inhabit prairie dog towns in the western U.S. This rare carnivore feeds on prairie dogs. The prairie dogs are very susceptible to plague and often entire population die-offs in towns occur. More...

Endangered ferrets surviving plague
By Chet Brokaw - The Associated Press - 10/26/2009
One of the nation's largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets is surviving despite the disease that has hit their home in a vast stretch of prairie dog towns south of Badlands National Park, according to federal wildlife officials. More...

Black-footed ferret reintroduced to Saskatchewan prairies
By Anne Kyle - Canada.com - 10/01/2009
More than 70 years after vanishing from the Canadian Prairies, the black-footed ferret is once again scampering in the wild at Saskatchewan's Grasslands National Park. More...

Hunt for black-footed ferrets on plains ends
By Chris Woodka - The Pueblo Chieftain - 09/09/2009
The last black-footed ferret known to live in the wild in Colorado died more than 50 years ago. Still, under the Endangered Species Act, Eastern Colorado landowners were required to survey their land on the off-chance that a ferret colony somehow survived. No more. More...

Plague vaccine for prairie dogs could save endangered ferret
By Hadley Leggett - Wired.com - 08/04/2009
Wild prairie dogs may soon get a dose of something extra in their daily diet: an oral vaccine against the plague. The same “Black Death” that devastated Europe during the Middle Ages is still alive and well in wild rodents across the western United States. More...

Prairie dogs fighting plague
Associated Press - 07/18/2009
Officials plan to treat prairie dog colonies where sylvatic plague has been found in Badlands National Park. The disease is spread by fleas and is fatal. An insecticide dust will be put in prairie dog holes. More...

Black-footed ferrets returning to Saskatchewan grasslands
By Anne Kyle - Canada.com - 06/28/2009
Parks Canada is reintroducing one of North America's rarest mammals to its native habitat in Saskatchewan's Grasslands National Park. The black-footed ferret hasn't been seen in the grasslands of southwest Saskatchewan since about 1936, but plans are afoot to reintroduce about 40 of the rare animals into colonies black-tailed prairie dogs this fall. Parks Canada will release additional ferrets into the wild next year and again in 2011. More...

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