The difficult path to recover black-footed ferrets
Why has it been so challenging to reintroduce the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes)? Efforts continue throughout the West, but establishing populations has ...
black-footed ferret
The May/June issue of The Wildlife Professional
The lesser prairie chicken faces an uncertain future despite efforts of conservationists and wildlife biologists in five states. This issue of The Wildlife ...
Endangered ferrets thrive in their ancestral home
This past September in Meeteetse, Wyoming, biologists panned spotlights over a moonlit prairie dog town. Each flash of emerald eyeshine marked a captive-bred ...