Jack Turnell Black-footed Ferret papers 1978-1997

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Jack Turnell Black-footed Ferret papers 1978-1997

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Correspondence, proposals, reports, research, plans and goals, clippings, workshop proceedings, and meeting minutes of the effort to save from extinction the last known population of black-footed ferrets discovered near Meeteetse, Wyoming in 1984.

cubic ft. (2 record boxes, 1 document box)

eng,

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a bureau within the Department of the Interior. Its mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. A 1940 reorganization plan in the Department of the Interior consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey into one agency to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife was created...

Black-footed Ferret Advisory Team.

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Shirley Basin/Medicine Bow Black-footed Ferret Working Group

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Sybille Wildlife Research Unit (Wyo.)

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Turnell, Jack

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The black-footed ferret originally occurred in the Great Plains from Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, to Texas and Arizona, USA. It experienced a dramatic decline during the first half of the 20th century and by the late 1970s was thought to be extinct. In 1981, a ranch dog in northwestern Wyoming killed a black-footed ferret. This event led to the discovery of a small colony of about 130 ferrets on the Pitchfork Ranch, near Meeteetse, Wyoming in 1984. Jack Turnell managed the Pitc...

Black-footed Ferret Workshop (1984 : Laramie, Wyo.)

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Wyoming Cooperative Fishery and Wildlife Research Unit

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Wyoming. Game and Fish Dept.

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