Black-Footed Ferrets Will Get New Neighbors
From Times Wire Reports
State and federal wildlife officials plan to place a group of black-footed ferrets north of Medicine Bow in an effort to expand the range of the first reintroduced colony.
Martin Grenier, a biologist with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said about 50 captive ferrets would be released this fall north and south of the Shirley Basin site, where the nation’s first black-footed ferret reintroduction was a success.
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