Prairie dog hunts
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Someone at the FTA today was telling me parts of the Wall, SD Buffalo Gap National Grassland is off limits to prairie dog hunting because of some sort of what I think he called the Black footed ferrot. I've hunted there. I wonder how common this is out west with this apparent protected ferrot effecting prairie dog hunting opportunity.
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Just a small area in a big place nothing to sweat it about! Buffalo gap, Ft. Pierre grassland a the Black Hills Nat Forest are open to the public.
Ted Turner has some huge tracks of land in a few counties out West there also that protect the swift fox and the ferrets also.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
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Tactical I live just a few miles down the river from where ferrets were originally found. They did reintroduce the ferrets back on a couple of those ranches a couple of years ago
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06/30/18 10:37 AM
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They always say if you find some endangered slug on your ranch then you never found it! LOL
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Black Footed Ferrets are cool little beasts. They are likely the least known of all our "weasel family" mammals, and the only one of that family (Mustelidae) that, at one time or another, wasn't part of the fur trade. They were , apparently, not common even when they were first "discovered" by modern taxonomists. I would love to get a glimpse of one sometime. They are teetering on the very edge of extinction.
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Them burrowing owls that hang out in the dog towns are cool also they are something to see!
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I would also love to see them, although I have seen Burrowing Owls in the past. They are so-so common in, of all places, central and southern Florida. Some of the old folks down there when I was a kid called them "Ground Owls".
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People whine and complain about the ferrets but they only affect a few SMALL areas. Its the ranchers that hate the government and the hunters that dont care about anything but what they want to shoot. Ferrets are awesome little critters, I have trapped and handled wild ferrets and they are pretty neat to see in the wild. I have no problem letting a few prairie dogs live in peace to have a few ferrets around. Especially since they are pretty dang endangered.
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A friend of mine was the ranch manager who was told they couldn't bring a dog along to work cows on over 40,000 acres because it was on the reservation and the Federal government tells you what goes. As far as I know the blackfooted ferret was never reintroduced out there after all the head aches. Allan
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Law dog I was driving a county black top few years ago, saw a borrow owl in a badger hole in road ditch, told fish n game guy and one went out and found owl scat, but owl wasn't there Pretty small owl
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USFWS trapped all the ferrets they were aware of to save them and breed them. while in captivity they got plague and died. every single one. USFWS thought they were extinct. then they found some more. they have no clue how endangered they are or if they even are. inept bunch of government stooges. cwd used to be called scrappie till it was introduced into the deer and elk herds by,,, wait for it,,,,, USFWS working with the university in ft Collins co.
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plague and prairie dogs go together like peas and carrots aje
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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I never seen one wiped out handi trapper. never known there not to be a plague warning either
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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