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| The legend of the black-footed ferret By Jeffrey Wolf and Kevin Torres - 9News.com - 08/19/2010 When a prison escapee was picked up in the tiny Wyoming town of Meeteetse last week, many of us at 9NEWS said: Mee-what? Up until then, many of us had no clue the town existed. More... |
| Black-footed ferrets breeding in Saskatchewan CBC News - 08/04/2010 Wildlife officials are gushing with pride after spotting a litter of newborn black-footed ferrets in Saskatchewan's Grasslands National Park, a few months after the creature was reintroduced to the area. "In the early hours of July 14, a playful litter of kits was observed," Parks Canada announced Wednesday. More... |
| Zoo record broken for ferret births The Washington Post - 08/04/2010 The black-footed ferret was once thought to be extinct. But the National Zoo's Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal is doing its part in helping to boost the population. More... |
| New Life for Vanishing Species By Susan Logue Koster - Voice of America - 07/19/2010 For more than a century, the National Zoo in Washington has attracted visitors wanting to learn more about animals. Some 2,000 animals are currently in the collection, ranging from ants to elephants. More... |
| Wind Cave Begins Night Hikes In Search of Ferrets nps.gov - 07/01/2010 Rangers at Wind Cave National Park will be offering special night hikes this summer in hope of seeing a black-footed ferret, the rarest animal in North America. Starting July 10, these special ranger programs will begin at the Elk Mountain Campground at 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays. More... |
| Circumstances Force National Park Service to Actively Manage Wildlife By Kurt Repanshek - National Parks Traveler - 06/10/2010 Florida panther kittens at Big Cypress National Preserve dosed with dewormers. Black-footed ferrets at Badlands National Park inoculated against plague. More... |
| Wyoming ferret reintroduction efforts hit snag
By Jeremy Pelzer - Casper Star-Tribune - 05/22/2010 Even though the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejected a petition by conservation groups last week to give the black-footed ferret more federal protection, state wildlife workers say the threat alone harms future reintroduction efforts in Wyoming. The petition, filed last fall by the groups WildEarth Guardians, Biodiversity Conservation Alliance and Center for Native Ecosystems, sought to give full federal endangered species protection to black-footed ferrets on public lands. More... |
| Ferrets' status remains unchanged
By Jeremy Pelzer - Casper Star Tribune - 05/18/2010 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday that it has denied a petition by environmental groups to give the black-footed ferret more protection as an endangered species. It's unclear whether the ruling will resurrect efforts by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to reintroduce the animal, among the rarest in North America, on private land in southern Albany County. More... |
| March madness record numbers: Black-footed ferrets in the spotlight near the Grand Canyon By Stacey Wittig - Grand Canyon Hiking Examiner - 04/10/2010 The elusive varmits may not hold the same fascination as does college basketball, but to those working toward the recovery of black-footed ferrets, the records established in March hold more meaning. “It’s exciting news,” said Jeff Corcoran, supervisor for the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Black-footed Ferret Recovery Effort in Seligman, AZ located 58 miles south of the Grand Canyon. More... |
| Plague Poses Widespread Risk to North American Wildlife Environment News Service - 03/01/2010 Sylvatic plague - a close cousin of the dreaded disease that killed one-third of all European residents in the six years between 1347 and 1353 - persists in rodents in the American West even when the disease does not erupt into epidemic form, new research demonstrates. The newly published work indicates that plague continues to affect the black-footed ferret, one of the most critically endangered mammals in North America, as well as several species of prairie dogs, including the federally threatened Utah prairie dog. More... |
| Snow-tracking leads to promising ferret count By Mike Corn - The Hays Daily News - 01/29/2010 Bounding from one hole to another, the black-footed ferret's tracks are distinctive -- when conditions are just right to see them. "We found about 20 ferrets on half of our ranch," said Larry Haverfield, whose 10,000-acre ranch has been at the heart of controversy over prairie dogs and the reintroduction of ferrets, among the most endangered mammals in the United States. More... |
| Toronto Zoo's Black-footed Ferret Release Enters Phase Two By Kathy Jury - zandavisitor.com - 12/24/2009 History was made on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 when 34 black-footed ferrets were released in Canada’s Grasslands National Park near Val Marie, Saskatchewan, after an absence of nearly 70 years. The release of the ferrets, many of whom were born at the Toronto Zoo, was an international conservation dream come true: species on the brink of extinction can be saved. However, the hard work is just beginning as the exacting process of monitoring the released animals gets underway. More... |
| 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. 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. More... |
| Kansas Ferrets Key to Species Survival By Mike Corn - The Hays Daily News - 09/05/2008 The sylvatic plague epidemic under way in the Conata Basin of South Dakota has killed off thousands of prairie dogs and an untold number of highly endangered black-footed ferrets. More... |
| Efforts on 2 Fronts to Save a Population of Ferrets By Jim Robbins - The New York Times - 07/15/2008 A colony that contains nearly half of the black-footed ferrets in the country and which biologists say is critical to the long-term health of the species has been struck by plague, which may have killed a third of the 300 animals. More... |
| Ferrets Make It Through Kansas Winter By Mike Corn - The Hays Daily News - 04/02/2008 Almost certain not to catch on as a new trend, it was the foray of choice for Travis Livieri, taking not to the road, but to the fields instead. More... |
| Move Over, ‘Meerkat Manor’ By Paul Tolme - Newsweek - 01/15/2008 When I traveled to South Dakota in 2005 to write a story about black-footed ferrets, I never imagined my words about the little weasels would one day appear in a trashy romance novel. More... |
| Endangered By Dan O'Brien - Wild Idea Buffalo Company Blog - 01/06/2008 It is not simply rareness that attracts us to endangered wildlife. More... |
| Hanging in the Balance By Travis Livieri - Ferrets USA Magazine - 2007 No moon appeared in the sky on the cool night of September 26, 1981. More... |
| Endangered Ferrets Face Plague Threat By Hope Hamashige - National Geographic News - 04/21/2006 Spring has arrived on the South Dakota prairie, and with it comes a new worry for endangered black-footed ferrets: the return of the plague. More... |
| Out West with the Black-Footed Ferret By Bob Church - Ferrets Magazine - January/February 2006 Travis Livieri knows a good animal when he sees one. More... |
| Life on the Brink By Travis Livieri - Ferrets USA Magazine - 2005 On a moonlit October night, wildlife biologist Randy Matchett maneuvers his pickup truck along a dirt trail in a remote area of north-central Montana. 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... |
| Kansas Ferrets Key to Species Survival By Mike Corn - The Hays Daily News - 09/05/2008 The sylvatic plague epidemic under way in the Conata Basin of South Dakota has killed off thousands of prairie dogs and an untold number of highly endangered black-footed ferrets. More... |
| Efforts on 2 Fronts to Save a Population of Ferrets By Jim Robbins - The New York Times - 07/15/2008 A colony that contains nearly half of the black-footed ferrets in the country and which biologists say is critical to the long-term health of the species has been struck by plague, which may have killed a third of the 300 animals. More... |
| Ferrets Make It Through Kansas Winter By Mike Corn - The Hays Daily News - 04/02/2008 Almost certain not to catch on as a new trend, it was the foray of choice for Travis Livieri, taking not to the road, but to the fields instead. More... |
| Move Over, ‘Meerkat Manor’ By Paul Tolme - Newsweek - 01/15/2008 When I traveled to South Dakota in 2005 to write a story about black-footed ferrets, I never imagined my words about the little weasels would one day appear in a trashy romance novel. More... |
| Hanging in the Balance By Travis Livieri - Ferrets USA Magazine - 2007 No moon appeared in the sky on the cool night of September 26, 1981. More... |
| Endangered Ferrets Face Plague Threat By Hope Hamashige - National Geographic News - 04/21/2006 Spring has arrived on the South Dakota prairie, and with it comes a new worry for endangered black-footed ferrets: the return of the plague. More... |
| Out West with the Black-Footed Ferret By Bob Church - Ferrets Magazine - January/February 2006 Travis Livieri knows a good animal when he sees one. More... |
| Prairie Dogs Poisoned by U.S. in South Dakota By Maryann Mott - National Geographic News - 10/26/2005 A controversial prairie dog poisoning program has begun on the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands in southwestern South Dakota. More... |
| Toughing It Out in the Badlands By Paul Tolme - Defenders Magazine - Summer 2005 With one hand on the steering wheel and the other controlling a spotlight on the roof of his pickup, biologist Travis Livieri drives through a bumpy, windswept stretch of South Dakota prairie. More... |
| Life on the Brink By Travis Livieri - Ferrets USA Magazine - 2005 On a moonlit October night, wildlife biologist Randy Matchett maneuvers his pickup truck along a dirt trail in a remote area of north-central Montana. More... |
| Prairie Dogs Have Their Day By Ruthanne Johnson - www.humanesociety.org - 07/27/2010 The stars may finally be aligning for black-tailed prairie dogs. Historically considered pests, the targets of poisoning and sport shooting, these native animals are gaining the respect of scientists and wildlife agents in federal grasslands, where colonies of prairie dogs support a myriad of species in decline: burrowing owls, ferruginous hawks, mountain plovers, swift foxes, and North America's most endangered mammal, the black-footed ferret. More... |
| Forest Service to trap, move prairie dogs in Wyoming The Associated Press - Billings Gazette - 07/13/2010 The U.S. Forest Service says it intends to trap and relocate black-tailed prairie dogs on the Thunder Basin National Grassland in Wyoming. Relocations are scheduled to begin later this month and continue through August. More... |
| UA students clear way for new prairie dogs By Rynski - TucsonCitizen.com - 05/19/2010 A new colony of black-tailed prairie dogs set up in Las Cienegas National Conservation Area is doing so well that some college students did some housekeeping to clear the way for more. Up close with the black-tailed prairie dog/BLM photo A group of University of Arizona student volunteers spent Saturday morning clearing away downed mesquite trees to clear the grasslands in Las Cienegas, about 50 miles southeast of Tucson, according to a news release from the Arizona Game and Fish Department. More... |
| Bryce Canyon National Park Hosts its First Annual Utah Prairie Dog Day KCSG.com - 04/07/2010 Bryce Canyon National Park Acting Superintendent Jacque Lavelle invites you to join the park’s first annual Utah Prairie Dog Day celebration on Friday April 30. A year-round inhabitant of Bryce Canyon’s high plateau meadows, the Utah Prairie Dog is an important component of the park’s ecosystem. More... |
| The prairie ecosystem needs its ‘dogs’ By Tom Galusha - The Pueblo Chieftain- 04/05/2010 The tiny burrowing owl alighted atop a cone of prairie dirt, which marked a tunnel's mouth. Unable to dig its own burrow, the owl scrambled down the steeply slanted tunnel into a chamber it had claimed for itself — thanks to prairie dogs. More... |
| Longmont Airport To Start Trapping Prairie Dogs thedenverchannel.com - 02/21/2010 Vance Brand Municipal Airport in Longmont is trapping and killing dozens of prairie dogs that have threatened funding for the facility. In an operation starting Monday, trapped prairie dogs will be euthanized with carbon dioxide and donated as food for centers that care for injured raptors. More... |
| Prairie Dogs Deemed Not Endangered PR Newswire - 11/05/2009 Black-tailed prairie dogs were denied protection under the Endangered Species Act on Wednesday after federal officials concluded the once prevalent species showed signs of rebounding. Decades of poisoning, shootings, the plague and loss of habitat to agriculture are blamed for a drastic drop in prairie dog numbers since the early 1900s, from roughly one billion animals to an estimated 24 million today. 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. 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. More... |
| Prairie Dogs Poisoned by U.S. in South Dakota By Maryann Mott - National Geographic News - 10/26/2005 A controversial prairie dog poisoning program has begun on the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands in southwestern South Dakota. More... |
| Another Kind of Coloradan Looking For Help Staying in Their Homes By Eric Mack - Public News Service - 07/05/2010 A bird called the mountain plover is being considered for greater protection by the federal government. The plover is a small brown bird that's being proposed for protection under the Endangered Species Act for a third time. More... |
| S.D. ranchers fear wilderness act steals control By Thom Gabrukiewicz - ArgusLeader.com - 07/04/2010 A low carpet of greens and browns helps soften the landscape, the erosion that's carved steep wedges leading to gravel-filled creeks, where chalky waters flow like a melted vanilla malt. Above the ever-present rush of the wind, nature resonates. More... |
| USDA Adds More Acres to Habitat Restoration Projects under SAFE to Allow Landowners in Colorado and Washington to Advance Conservation Efforts USDA Newsroom - 05/12/2010 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA has approved 45,000 acres for two conservation projects under the Conservation Reserve Program called "State Acres For Wildlife Enhancement," or SAFE. "One of the important goals of SAFE initiative projects is to protect and restore habitats for rare, threatened or endangered wildlife and we are particularly interested in working with farmers and ranchers to conserve rare species before they have to be listed under the Endangered Species Act," Vilsack said. More... |
| Why the Buffalo Can’t Roam By Hillary Rosner - 05/11/2010 In front of Karrie Taggart's tidy, red-roofed Montana house, half a dozen bison relax in the spring sun. Others amble slowly along the road, graze in yards, or doze in driveways, untroubled by the occasional passing car, pedestrian, or dog. Their distinctive profiles, with sloping shoulders and furry, horned heads, create a bizarre picture beside the hot tubs and satellite dishes. More... |
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