CPW prairie dog conservation efforts preserve endangered black-footed ferrets
PUEBLO, Colo. – Threatening weather didn’t deter a team of six Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists as they fanned out last week across 850 acres of Gary and Georgia Walker’s cattle ranch in Pueblo County to distribute plague vaccine hidden inside peanut butter pellets. Several of the biologists walked miles of transects across active prairie dog colonies where black-footed ferrets have been reintroduced, hand-tossing a pellet every eight yards, while a couple rode ATVs equipped with mechanical pellet shooters. Following precise routes, each biologist dropped about 50 pellets per acre across the colonies on the working cattle ranch that sprawls acrossRead More
Cargill Meat Solutions Recalls Ground Beef Products due to Possible E. coli Contamination
Cargill Meat Solutions Recalls Ground Beef Products due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination Class I Recall 069-2018 Health Risk: High Aug 23, 2018 Congressional and Public Affairs Felicia ThompsonRead More
