41. Ferrets Returning To Colorado Blackfooted ferrets, once thought extinct, have now been successfully reintroducedto Wyoming is a cooperative effort by the US Fish and wildlife Service, the http://web.dailycamera.com/extra/prairiedog/15lpdog.html

Home News Sports Buffzone ... Obituaries Calendars Arts/Entertainment Business Community Outdoors ... Today's events Ferrets returning to Colorado By Katy Human Camera Staff Writer Forty-five black-footed ferrets will be set loose in northwestern Colorado today by state and federal officials in the first year of a five-year program to bring the prairie dog predators back to the state. Residents of southern Moffat County and northern Rio Blanco County said they're nervous about having an endangered mammal in their back yards. Environmentalists have already criticized the project for what they call "weak" protection for the extremely rare black-footed ferret and its prey, the white-tailed prairie dog. But wildlife biologists said they're thrilled to finally be implementing a plan that's been in development for more than a decade. "We've been planning for this since 1987," said Bob Leachman, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Grand Junction. "As an agency, we have a responsibility to try and recover endangered species." Black-footed ferrets, once thought extinct, have now been successfully reintroduced to Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Arizona and Utah. Today's reintroduction, the first in Colorado, is a cooperative effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

42. Black-Footed Ferret Recovery Implementation Team - Ferret Timeline No others are found. Nine South Dakota ferrets are captured and takento Patuxent wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland. http://www.blackfootedferret.org/timeline.html

Black-footed Ferret Timeline The black-footed ferret is reported and described by John James Audubon. No one will report seeing a ferret again for another 26 years. The US National Park Service is established. A female ferret and kits are found in Mellette County in western South Dakota. They are considered perhaps the last black-footed ferrets in the world. The black-footed ferret is put on the Endangered Species list. Executive Order 11643 is implemented, banning the use of poisons with secondary hazards on public lands. A drowned ferret is discovered in a watering tank in Wyoming. No others are found. Nine South Dakota ferrets are captured and taken to Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland. It is hoped that these ferrets will produce kits, but every litter is dead at birth. The Endangered Species Act is passed. The last Patuxent ferret dies. The black-footed ferret is declared extinct. September 25th A Wyoming ranch dog belonging to John and Lucille Hogg kills a black-footed ferret. October 29th A live black-footed ferret is spotted near Meeteetse, Wyoming. Conservationists and researchers begin an intensive search and study of wild ferrets.

43. BLM Colorado - LSFO Black-footed Ferrets Homepage What You Can Do. Blackfooted ferrets photo gallery. November 2000. Projects for Kids.Cooperating Agencies Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and wildlife Service. http://www.co.blm.gov/lsra/bffwebpage.htm

Colorado-Utah Black-footed Ferret Project Project Summary On November 12, 1998, twenty black-footed ferrets were placed in large pens on an existing white-tailed prairie dog town in northwest Colorado. The ferrets are held over the winter and allowed to live in their natural habitat until spring when they are matched with mates. Young ferrets (kits) are born in may or June. Releases of ferrets occur in the fall - this is usually a combination of adults and kits. We hope you will return to this page often to follow what happens with the project and how you can help. If you have any questions, feel free to call the Colorado Ferret Field Office number (970) 365-3604. Considered one of the rarest mammals in North America, the black-footed ferret is now a resident again in Colorado. On Nov. 15, more than three dozen black-footed ferrets were released along the Wolf Creek and Coyote Basin areas in northwest Colorado. The effort marks the ninth wild release of the species since recovery operations began in the mid-1980s. It was the first release of black-footed ferrets in Colorado. See the CDOW News Release Contents Brief History of Ferrets in Colorado and Utah ... Black-footed ferrets photo gallery For Status Reports, please read the project newsletters- Kits Kronicles:

44. BLM Colorado Black-footed Ferrets, Kit Kronicles - News Release The exact location is not given out to protect the ferrets. Funding Sources. GreatOutdoors Colorado (GOCO). National Fish and wildlife Foundation. http://www.co.blm.gov/lsra/bffnewsltr2.htm

Kit Kronicles Colorado-Utah Black-footed Ferret Project Newsletter June 2000 March Spotlight Survey Results Surveys were scheduled to run March 17 - 22. A snowstorm hit in the middle of the survey and stopped the surveys for two nights. Three ferrets were observed; two were identified. Both of the identified ferrets were males; one from the Colorado-Utah breeding pens. Help Wanted During Spotlighting The next spotlight surveys will occur in late July or early August - the dates are yet to be determined. This survey will hopefully document any wild-produced litters and locate ferrets before more ferrets are released. If you would like to help with spotlight surveys, please call Brent Bibles (435-789-6100 ext. 239). We can give you more details as they become available. Charlie Bessken and Lowell Wilder developed a short video about spotlighting that is available for you to borrow. It gives you an idea of what happens during the surveys. Call Charlie (970-365-3604) if you’d like to see it. 2000 Breeding Season Male and female ferrets were monitored during March and April for breeding status. Pairings started on April 16. The final pairing was made on May 17 resulting in 14 females bred.

45. Wildlife And Countryside - UK Department For Environment, Food & Rural Affairs A Guide to wildlife Law Enforcement in the United Kingdom. 3.6 THEPROTECTION OF BADGERS ACT 1992. 3.6.7 ferrets. Rabbits, which can http://www.defra.gov.uk/paw/publications/law/3_6_7.htm

A Guide to Wildlife Law Enforcement in the United Kingdom 3.6 THE PROTECTION OF BADGERS ACT 1992 3.6.7 Ferrets Rabbits, which can be an attraction to the ferreter, sometimes live alongside badgers. Entering a ferret into a sett is not a specific offence. Expert opinion would be needed to show that a badger was disturbed by the act. Ferrets have a reputation of getting lost underground or killing down (killing a rabbit underground). Having killed down, the ferret may gorge itself on the rabbit and then lay up to sleep it off. If the ferret has killed and eaten, it may lay up for 12 to 18 hours. Electronic locators on a collar are used in ferret work to pinpoint its position underground. Any attempt to dig it out of a sett would obviously be an offence. A cage trap for mink, baited with something smelly ( for example a rabbit paunch), should be placed near the sett. A ferret-carrying box containing food and hay can also be effective in enticing out the ferret. Previous Contents Next Published 26 February 1998 PAW Home Page Defra Home Page

46. Animal Protection Institute - AVMA Position Exotic Animals And Wildlife Exotic Animals and wildlife. Exotic animals and wildlife (skunks, chimpanzees,poisonous snakes, raccoons, etc.) do not make good pets. ferrets. http://www.api4animals.org/default.asp?ID=385

47. New Zealand To Ban Pet Ferrets To Protect Birdlife - 3/29/2002 - ENN.com native animals. Fed up with the carnage, the New Zealand governmentplans to ban pet ferrets to try to protect native wildlife. http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/03/03292002/reu_46808.asp

Site Index: Home News ENN Earthnews Affiliates News In-Depth Topics Interact Online Quizzes Postcards Marketplace Advanced Search Advertise Join ENN e-mail Subscription Take our Survey Affiliate Tech Center Post Press Release Help About ENN Site Map New Zealand to ban pet ferrets to protect birdlife Friday, March 29, 2002 By Reuters Fed up with the carnage, the New Zealand government plans to ban pet ferrets to try to protect native wildlife. "The threat ferrets pose to New Zealand's vulnerable native species such as kiwi is too great to ignore," Conservation Minister Sandra Lee said in a statement on Thursday. The kiwi, a flightless and nocturnal bird that has been a nickname for New Zealanders since World War I, is particularly vulnerable to predators, including ferrets. The small carnivores were introduced to New Zealand by European settlers in 1867 to control rabbits, which were also introduced by the settlers. However, ferrets quickly developed a taste for kiwis and their eggs, along with other vulnerable New Zealand wildlife that had evolved in what had been a relatively predator-free environment. The ferrets' skinny bodies enabled them to easily raid the underground burrows of the much larger, relatively clumsy kiwis. Environmental campaigner the Forest and Bird Protection Society labeled ferrets as "vicious predators" that could also transmit tuberculosis to cattle and spread the human influenza virus.

48. Wyoming Game And Fish - Error Page - 174 And, prairie dogs are doing better, so the Game and Fish Department plans to askthe US Fish and wildlife Service this year for more ferrets to reintroduce in http://gf.state.wy.us/HTML/wildtimes/ferret.htm

Citizen Business Government Visitor ... subscribe now! In order to better serve Wyoming's Outdoor Enthusiasts we have made some changes to our web site. We are sorry that the page you requested could not be found in our system. The page /HTML/wildtimes/ferret.htm either does not exist anymore or has been moved. Please try re-typing your site link or Visit our site homepage or Use our new search engine If you feel you have reached this page in error or need to contact us immediately, please feel free to contact us Thank you for your patience as we move towards making this site easier to use for everyone! GF Homepage Wildlife Agencies Search the State of Wyoming

49. AZGF Heritage Fund Black-footed Ferret Program Blackfooted ferrets had been missing from Arizona's wildlife scene for 65 yearsuntil last March when four of the nocturnal mammals were placed at the site. http://www.gf.state.az.us/frames/other/ferret7.htm

50. AZGF Heritage Fund Black-footed Ferret Program WYOMING 1981 ferrets discovered in Meeteetse, WY 1986 Eighteen wild ferrets collectedand sent to Sybille wildlife Conservation and Research Center, WY, for http://www.gf.state.az.us/frames/other/ferret14.htm

51. Black-footed Ferrets Belitsky. 1988. Canine distemper in blackfooted ferrets (Mustela nigripes)from Wyoming. Journal of wildlife Diseases 24385-398. http://biology.usgs.gov/s t/noframe/c040.htm

52. Black-Footed Ferrets Making A Comeback Through Artificial Insemination Since 1987 nearly 4,000 ferrets have been bred in captivity, of which 1,400 the newestin Chihuahua, Mexico, said Paul Marinari, Fish and wildlife biologist at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0710_020710_TVferret.html

Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter Also see: Today's Top Stories This Story National Geographic Today E-mail this story Black-Footed Ferrets Making a Comeback Through Artificial Insemination By Bijal P. Trivedi National Geographic Today July 11, 2002 Get National Geographic Subscribe now for a year of animal adventures, dinosaur discoveries, and more. Black-footed ferrets, which were listed as endangered in 1967 and were one of the first mammals listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, were already considered extinct by 1979. But in 1981 a ranch dog in northwestern Wyoming killed one that had tried to eat from its bowl. In 1984 a small population was discovered in Meeteetsee, Wyoming, but within a year canine distemper had infected the colony and threatened to wipe out every last ferret. Biologists mounted an emergency effort to rescue the species and snatched 18 of the animals from the jaws of extinction, including the very last known member of the species. All black-footed ferrets bred in captivity in North America are descendents of these 18 animals. Black-Footed Ferret Photograph by Jessie Cohen/Smithsonian National Zoological Park More News Diary of the Planet The Environment Travel National Geographic Today Special Series Digital Lifestyles: feature by Sony EarthPulse National Geographic Out There ... Mount Everest Expedition Snatched From the Jaws of Extinction In 1986 the American Zoo and Aquarium Association established a Species Survival Plan for the ferret that involved captive breeding under strict genetic guidelines. Rules were created to prevent as much inbreeding as possible.

53. Ferrets Recovering At Badlands; National Park Service Natural Resource Year In R May 1997 (publication D1182). wildlife. ferrets recovering at Badlands.by Bruce Bessken and Glenn Plumb. Bruce Bessken E-mail bruce_bessken http://www.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/yir/YR_RVW96/chapter5/ferrets.htm

The following material is from Natural Resource Year in Review1996 , published by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, in May 1997 (publication D-1182) Wildlife Ferrets recovering at Badlands by Bruce Bessken and Glenn Plumb Bruce Bessken E-mail bruce_bessken@nps.gov Chief of Resource Management; Badlands National Park, South Dakota Glenn Plumb E-mail glenn_plumb@nps.gov Wildlife Biologist; Badlands National Park, South Dakota scape from predators is not as easy for prairie dogs in Badlands National Park these days; they may also need a little luck. Recent restorations of the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) in the South Dakota park have brought this highly specialized predator of the prairie dog back from the brink of extinction. Through the fall of 1996, biologists had released 134 young-of-the-year and 36 adult captive-bred black-footed ferrets into the Conata Basin-Badlands prairie dog complex contiguous with both the park and Buffalo Gap National Grassland. Ferrets are very closely linked to the prairie dog for food, shelter, and habitat. Since the early 1900s prairie dog range is estimated to have declined as much as 98% due to poisoning, disease, and changes in land uses. The sum of these impacts brought about extinction of the ferret in the wild by 1987, when the last of the known 18 remaining individuals were collected for captive breeding. Between 1988 and 1993, interagency collaboration and public support, in the face of considerable opposition from agricultural interests, led to the decision to initiate experimental ferret recovery on federal lands in southwestern South Dakota.

54. Ferrets Recovering At Badlands; National Park Service Natural Resource Year In R wildlife. ferrets recovering at Badlands. by Bruce Bessken and GlennPlumb. Bruce Bessken Email bruce_bessken@nps.gov Chief of Resource http://www.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/yir/YR_RVW96/chapter5/tferrets.htm

Wildlife Ferrets recovering at Badlands by Bruce Bessken and Glenn Plumb Bruce Bessken E-mail bruce_bessken@nps.gov Chief of Resource Management; Badlands National Park, South Dakota Glenn Plumb E-mail glenn_plumb@nps.gov Wildlife Biologist; Badlands National Park, South Dakota E scape from predators is not as easy for prairie dogs in Badlands National Park these days; they may also need a little luck. Recent restorations of the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) in the South Dakota park have brought this highly specialized predator of the prairie dog back from the brink of extinction. Through the fall of 1996, biologists had released 134 young-of-the-year and 36 adult captive-bred black-footed ferrets into the Conata Basin-Badlands prairie dog complex contiguous with both the park and Buffalo Gap National Grassland. Ferrets are very closely linked to the prairie dog for food, shelter, and habitat. Since the early 1900s prairie dog range is estimated to have declined as much as 98% due to poisoning, disease, and changes in land uses. The sum of these impacts brought about extinction of the ferret in the wild by 1987, when the last of the known 18 remaining individuals were collected for captive breeding. Between 1988 and 1993, interagency collaboration and public support, in the face of considerable opposition from agricultural interests, led to the decision to initiate experimental ferret recovery on federal lands in southwestern South Dakota. [Image] Black-footed ferret. Badlands National Park, Black-footed ferret Recovery Program.

55. News And Current Articles About Rabbits, Ferrets, Pot Bellied Pigs, Hampsters, A animal votes! ALASKA Measure 1 OPPOSE - Would bar all citizen ballotinitiatives relating to the protection of wildlife. For more http://www.pgaa.com/burrow/wind/

Mammals In The Wind Snippets of timely news and events, even some Mammal PetPeeves Latest Update: August 30, 2000 The following was reported in HUMANElines, Issue 108, August 30,2000. HUMANElines is a project of The Humane Society of the United States and The Fund for Animals. E-mail address is: humanelines@hsus.org STATE ANIMAL PROTECTION BALLOT MEASURES! This November, voters in nine states will have the chance to cast their votes on vitally important animal protection issues. Citizens in each of the states listed below have the opportunity to invest in the future of animal protection legislation simply by voting and by urging their friends and family to do the same. As the battles heat up, we need everyone's support and energy to encourage pro-animal votes! ALASKA: Measure 1- OPPOSE - Would bar all citizen ballot initiatives relating to the protection of wildlife. For more information, contact: Alaska Conservation Voters, 750 W. 2nd Ave., Suite 109, Anchorage, Alaska 99501 Ph: 907-258-6171 / Fax: 907-258-6177 / E-mail: www.akvoice.org

56. AVIFAUNA - Picchio Verde . . . L'altro Web Site - Wildlife Club. Specific wildlife Organizations and Institutions. The page; TarangireElephant Conservation. ferrets, ferrets, and More ferrets! Fish http://digilander.libero.it/avifauna/wildlife.htm

Ornitologia e dintorni INDICE DEL SITO HOME PAGE NOVITA' BIRDWATCHING NATURA LISTS' bird ... FOTO GUIDA SITI ITALIANI RAPACI AUDIO OPTICS VIAGGI BIRDING Wildlife on www INDEX General Wildlife Organizations and Institutions Specific Wildlife Organizations and Institutions Wildlife Indices Siti Ambientali Italiani General Wildlife Organizations and Institutions African Wildlife: A WWW Resource Amphibian Declines in Australia Animal Tracks On-Line: Endangered Species Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ... National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Tuna Newsletter National Wildlife Federation National Wildlife Refuge System Native Animals ... Wildlife Heritage Club Specific Wildlife Organizations and Institutions The Antlion Pit FAQs About Alligators And Their Kin Bat Conservation International NTT World Bird Count ... The Licaone Fund Cats Cheetah Spot Feline Information Page Five Tigers International Tiger Information Center ... African Wild Dog Conservation Fund Dolphins Dolphin The Dolphin Alliance The Dolphin Page The Oceania Project ... Eagle Page Elephants Elephant Consultance Srilalanka Tarangire Elephant Conservation Ferrets, Ferrets, and More Ferrets!

57. Interagency Agreement Among The U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Serv within a time period that would allow for release of blackfooted ferrets in the USFish and wildlife Service Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (PL 93 http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/nebraska/gpng/conata_mou.html

INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT AMONG THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE U.S. FOREST SERVICE and NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Purpose To establish an understanding between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and the National Park Service (NPS) regarding the agency's roles and responsibilities in the planning and possible implementation of black-footed ferret reintroduction in the Conata Basin/Badlands area in South Dakota. This includes the preparation of a reintroduction plan and appropriate environmental compliance documents. The provisions of this agreement are limited to NPS and USFS lands within the Conata Basin/Badlands area consisting of Badlands National Park (BNP) and Buffalo Gap National Grassland (BGNG). Background Information The last confirmed black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) sighting in the Conata Basin/Badlands area of South Dakota was a roadkill in 1965. This project would assess the reintroduction of captive bred ferrets back into their former habitat and, if deemed appropriate, carry out that reintroduction. Although there is a close relationship between back-footed ferrets and black-tailed prairie dogs, no substantive changes in prairie dog management are proposed. Current prairie dog management direction for the area is provided in the Land and Resource Management Plan for the BGNG (amendment #5, August 1989) and the Natural Resource Management Plan for BNP (may, 1991 Draft). All released ferrets and their resulting populations will be designated as "experimental", those outside BNP will also be designated "non-essential" (subject to the provisions of the final rule).

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59. Montana :: Chapter News :: Ferrets Reintroduced In Northeastern Montana Turner Endangered Species Fund, the National Fish and wildlife Foundation, and universities. For us, it’ll be a great feeling to know that ferrets will once http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/montana/news/news890.html

Montana Montana Homepage About the Chapter Chapter News Places We Protect ... Ways of Giving Ferrets are being reintroduced near the Conservancy's Matador Ranch Black-footed ferrets B lack-tailed prairie dogs once lived in colonies that stretched across an estimated 100 million acres of the Great Plains. Black-footed ferrets were one of their primary predators. Both species drastically declined with human settlement. Today, the Conservancy’s Matador Ranch and the surrounding prairie of southern Phillips County are a focal point for ferret/prairie dog recovery efforts. Plans call for the release November 9, 2001 of 20 young ferrets from a captive breeding facility onto Bureau of Land Management land leased by the Matador Ranch. "We’re very excited to be part of a team that’s made a huge commitment to get this work done," says Linda Poole, the Conservancy’s Matador Ranch manager. Poole has been working with the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and a variety of other people on the recovery effort. "This whole effort is a balancing act involving meeting the needs of endangered species, local communities, regulatory agencies, local ranchers, environmentalists, and recreationists. It’s a complex challenge, but we’re making strikes in the right direction," says Poole.

60. ENDANGERED BLACK-FOOTED FERRETS RETURN TO MEXICO October 2 Today, more than two dozen endangered blackfooted ferrets from Arizona,Wyoming, and Ontario, Canada, made wildlife conservation history by being http://www.azod.com/Outdoor Updates/Archive/2001/ENDANGERED BLACK-FOOTED FERRETS

Arizona Outdoorsman! Navigation Buttons now in Banner at TOP of Website Weather Info Subscribe Now! Subscribe Now! Search AZOD Community- Services Here Outdoor Store Books / Videos Opinion Polls ... Read Feedback AZOD HOSTED SITES: Arizona Wildlife Views TV Az B.A.S.S Federation ... Sportsmen Other State Sites n ot hosted by AZOD) Arizona Antelope Foundation Arizona Elk Society Arizona Black Bear ... Sportsman's Club ENDANGERED BLACK-FOOTED FERRETS RETURN TO MEXICO October 2: Today, more than two dozen endangered black-footed ferrets from Arizona, Wyoming, and Ontario, Canada, made wildlife conservation history by being the first of their species to return to Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico released the ferrets in the vicinity of Janos, Chihuahua, Mexico, located roughly 140 miles southwest of El Paso, Texas. The ferrets released in Mexico were born in captivity at the following breeding facilities: the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Laramie, Wyoming; the Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona; and the Toronto Zoo in Ontario, Canada. “Today we celebrate a truly historic moment in wildlife conservation history,” said Interior Secretary Gale Norton.

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