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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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Our small group spent a weekend at the Ferret Research Camp, a cluster of trailers tucked in the middle of a black-tailed prairie dog town and the site, as the name implies, of a black-footed ferret reintroduction program. Like the Rockies, though, this is a harsh beauty, not an ideal climate for the human animal by any means.

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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

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Other felids are all much larger, the similar sized carnivores are things like minks and ferrets, and they have very different habits. If cats displace ferrets, then that probably means that birds are getting hit harder than rodents, and among birds, adult birds are getting hit harder than eggs or hatchlings.

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Dance Me to the End of Love

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It’s one thing to decide that among humans, the most successful relationships are those that end in a mortality event, although even then it’s a little morbid. Besides the black-footed ferrets, one of the promised highlights of my trip to the Charles M. But we really need to leave birds out of it.

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