FROM THE ARCHIVE

Disease hurting reservation ferrets

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2001

Disease has been hurting the recovery of black-footed ferrets on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana.

Plague has been discovered on the reservation and is deadly to ferrets and the prairie dogs on which they feast. According to the Bureau of Land Management, the disease has hurt ferrets released on the reservation in 1997.

Tribes throughout the Plains and West are participating in the recovery of the ferret, the most endangered mammal in North America. Since the ferret feasts solely on prairie dog, both populations are being regulated.

Get the Story:
11 of 20 ferrets appear for survey (The Billings Gazette 11/27)

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