Jack Turnell's Black-footed Ferret papers, 1978-1997.

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Jack Turnell's Black-footed Ferret papers, 1978-1997.

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Papers contain recovery and management plans; project, research, study, and work proposals; information and education plans; progress and research reports and updates; annual completion reports (compilations of information associated with the reintroduction effort in Shirley Basin); clippings; correspondence; meeting minutes of the Black-Footed Ferret Advisory Team, Black-Footed Ferret Interstate Coordinating Committee, and Shirley Basin/Medicine Bow Working Group meetings; and workshop proceedings from the black-footed ferret workshop held in Laramie, Wyoming in 1984. The proceedings also include a transcript of a paper delivered by Jack Turnell entitled "The Private Landowner Perspective." Of note is a cassette tape of a BBC broadcast entitled "The Ferret From Fort Laramie."

2.45 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7838163

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...

Shirley Basin/Medicine Bow Black-footed Ferret Working Group

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Black-footed Ferret Advisory Team.

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Turnell, Jack.

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The black-footed ferret originally occurred in the Great Plains. It declined 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 one, an event which led to the discovery of a colony of about 130 ferrets on the Pitchfork Ranch near Meeteetse in 1984. Jack Turnell managed the Pitchfork Ranch at that time. Outbreaks of plague and canine distemper killed nearly all of the Meeteetse population so the remaining ...

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Wyoming. Game and Fish Dept.

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

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