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Restoring Colorado’s not-so-plain grasslands, one ferret at a time

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3zeF6Ch The late afternoon sun cast a golden light across the grassy plains at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. About a dozen journalists and wildlife experts gathered around a prairie dog burrow, staring intently at the small animal carrier sitting in the dirt next to the mound. A loud chatter erupted from the carrier, and the crowd got its first glimpse of the animal inside, one that was considered extinct just 40 years earlier: the black-footed ferret. On October 18, the refuge released 19 ferrets, bringing the landscape’s estimated ferret population to about 30. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, black-footed ferrets are North America’s most endangered mammal. Tracking this species in the wild is difficult, but estimates put the wild population at less than 500. Read more: https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/news/blac... ------------------------------------------------------ Follow Rocky Mountain PBS on our other platforms, too. • Newsletter: https://www.rmpbs.org/newsletter/ • Facebook:   / rmpbs   • Instagram:   / rmpbs   • LinkedIn:   / rocky-mountain-pbs