SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Now, after almost 30 years of temporary prairie dog hunting bans, the U.S. Forest Service will permanently ban prairie dog hunting in an area of the Conata Basin in the ...

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. — The black-footed ferret may be short of stature, but they stand tall in the history books – they were the first North American endangered species to be cloned in 2020. This ...

Jennifer McRae is a digital media producer for CBS Colorado with more than 25 years of experience in news. Jennifer is part of the digital team recognized for excellence for Best Website several times ...

Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife conservation biologist Ed Schmal uses a spot light to search for black-footed ferrets among the praire dog towns Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025, on the Walker Ranch west of ...

A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has birthed two healthy kits, the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species and another win for a federal ...

Leaders of a western Kansas county and several landowners want to stop federal wildlife officials who are reintroducing an endangered ferret to the plains. The Logan County Board of Commissioners and ...

Ndivhuwo Shivambu works for the Tshwane University of Technology. She receives funding from the Tshwane University of Technology, the Faculty of Sciences and the Department of Nature Conservation. She ...