Colorado Parks and Wildlife conservation biologist Ed Schmal uses a spot light to search for black-footed ferrets among the praire dog towns Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025, on the Walker Ranch west of ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Now, after almost 30 years of temporary prairie dog hunting bans, the U.S. Forest Service will permanently ban prairie dog hunting in an area of the Conata Basin in the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A species of ferrets once thought to be extinct has been seen outside of special management areas in South Dakota, sparking hope in some biologists that a new wild colony of ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife released endangered black-footed ferrets on May Ranch in Lamar, Colo. on Nov. 14, with the help of students from Lamar Middle School (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News). LAMAR ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife conservation biologist Ed Schmal uses a spot light to search for black-footed ferrets among the praire dog towns Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025, on the Walker Ranch west of ...

SELIGMAN — Wildlife officials released 10 endangered black-footed ferrets at Arizona’s only active ferret reintroduction site Wednesday, the latest development in a decades-long effort to save the ...

Animals born from cloned endangered species are no longer just for the silver screens of “Jurassic Park.” They might just be a model for species conservation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...