From the daily archives: Monday, November 14, 2011

Eastern Utah gets 37 endangered black footed ferrets

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Once thought extinct, reintroduction to Utah just one of a growing number-

The black-footed ferret, closely related to the weasel, but a predatory specialist that eats prairie dogs almost exclusively (about 92% of their diet), was thought to be extinct back in the 1970s.  Amazingly a pet dog discovered a colony near Meeteetse, Wyoming in […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey