10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
Sorry for banging on about black-footed ferrets, but here’s a bit on why this trip was so special to me: Forty years ago the black-footed ferret was a bit more like the Loch Ness Monster than it is today. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. Ferrets, stoats and weasels were released and quickly became destructive vermin in their own right, quickly causing the extinction of the Laughing Owl and stymieing efforts to establish game birds. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest.
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