This was posted at Carnivore Conservation blog. It links to the latest data (in papers). It is from a 2004 symposium, which was badly needly because the publicly available information was a decade old.
About the recovery of the Black-footed Ferret. (corrected link)
Like the wolf, the ferret’s endangered status is the result of the livestock industry which hates prairie dogs, the sole prey of the ferret. They don’t like the fact that the prairie dogs “steal” a little grass and make holes their slow-witted cows stumble on.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project and the creator of The Wildlife News.
