When prairie dog numbers decline, these owls quickly vanish, highlighting just how intertwined their fates are. Black-Footed Ferrets: The Rarest of the Rare The black-footed ferret, North America ...

After decades of restoration work by tribal wildlife managers, prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets, swift foxes and bison are once again roaming the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north-central ...

John Yang (voice-over): That complexity comes in part from the black-footed ferrets relationship with Prairie dogs, which make up 90 percent of their diet. They require prairie dogs to thrive.

Black-footed ferrets once roamed the Great Plains in high numbers. They lived in areas with plenty of prairie dogs, which are their main food source. In the past, thousands of these ferrets ...

Ensuring a vital population of black-tailed prairie dogs is key to the survival of the federally protected black-footed ferret, which the Fish and Wildlife Service has reintroduced into Wyoming.

Few species demonstrate the power of conservation quite like the black-footed ferret. In the late 1800s, there were as many as 1 million living among prairie dog colonies in the plains ...

“We didn’t know anything about prairie dogs in the beginning,” said Clayvin Herrera, a tribal fish and game officer and Crow Nation black-footed ferret recovery team leader. But Alexander ...

Prairie dogs make up roughly 90% of a black-footed ferret’s diet and provide their only source of shelter. With the greatest canine length-to-skull size ratio of any mammal (according to FWS ...

The same can’t be said for the endangered black-footed ferrets that call the Badlands area home. They, along with the prairie dogs, may be at the greatest risk from plague. The Conata Basin has ...

After decades of restoration work by tribal wildlife managers, prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets, swift foxes and bison are once again roaming the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north-central ...