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No black-footed ferrets found in Meeteetse, 40 years after a rescue saved the species

No black-footed ferrets found in Meeteetse, 40 years after a rescue saved the species
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Wyoming wildlife managers are reporting that no black-footed ferrets are being detected in the cradle of the species’ conservation: the Absaroka Range foothills outside of Meeteetse, where the ferrets were saved after presumed extinction in the 1980s. A tough combination of plague and drought — b...

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