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Joshua Rapp Learn

Black-tailed prairie dogs aren’t plague reservoirs

February 7, 2022

Black-tailed prairie dogs seem to be only victims to sylvatic plague, rather than reservoirs for the disease in the grasslands environments where they live. Sylvatic plague is the wildlife version of the plague that has …

TWS Wildlife News

In parts of the U.S., plague is still present

January 6, 2022

For those who live out West, stories about people infected with plague are not uncommon. Usually, people are exposed when their pets become infected or carry plague-infected fleas. People can also become sick from a …

FYI News

For species on the brink, biologists take a stab at vaccines

September 30, 2021

Vaccines have been getting a lot of attention recently as scientists work to protect people from COVID-19. The use of vaccines for animals in the wild has been rare, but that’s starting to change. Increasingly, …

Dana Kobilinsky

Imperiled mountain plovers use prairie dog colony edges

April 27, 2020

In Wyoming’s Thunder Basin National Grassland, imperiled mountain plovers choose nesting habitats on the edges of black-tailed prairie dog colonies, researchers found. The grassland plover species is known to nest in places that have recently …

Conservation News

Endangered ferrets thrive in their ancestral home

October 6, 2016

This past September in Meeteetse, Wyoming, biologists panned spotlights over a moonlit prairie dog town. Each flash of emerald eyeshine marked a captive-bred ferret living wild in its ancestral home. “Once you see ferret eyeshine, it’s …

Conservation News

Black-footed ferret recovery comes full circle

August 4, 2016

Twenty-nine years ago, biologists traveled to the ranching community of Meeteetse in Wyoming to trap the last few black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) in existence. Now, the descendants of those ferrets are back in their ancestral …

Conservation News

Supporting Black-footed Ferret Recovery

November 12, 2015

Black-footed ferret recovery took two new steps forward in October, with releases outside of Denver at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge and on the Crow Nation lands east of Billings, Montana. Considered one …

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