Northern Plains tribes bring back their wild 'relatives'
A black-footed ferret is seen in a temporary trap prior to being vaccinated against sylvatic plague, a disease that periodically decimates populations of the highly endangered mammals, at a ferret reintroduction site on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Thusday, Oct. 6, 2022, near Fort Belknap Agency, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
By MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
FORT BELKNAP AGENCY, Mont. — Native species such as swift foxes and black-footed ferrets disappeared from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation generations ago, wiped out by poisoning campaigns, disease and farm plows that turned open prairie where nomadic tribes once roamed into cropland and cattle pastures...
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