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Show Seen a Glack-Fsoted Ferret? Keen on the Lookout in SE Dul R W V A bl.vck-footed ferret train-ir train-ir session was held in Moab. U'iah. during the month of March. The training session was given by Dan Hinckley of the Department of the Interior's In-terior's Bureau of Sport Fish-erics Fish-erics and Wildlife, Division of Wildlife Services. Da hi Zohner, District Forest Ranger Rang-er for the Manti-LaSal National Na-tional Fort'st, and several of his staff were present as Hvcre Margin Jensen, Area Manager for the Bureau of Land Management, and J.F. Cariithers, Assistant Park Sup erintendent for the National Park Service, who also had mrmhers of their staff present. pres-ent. Tliis is the second training cession on black-footed ferrets conducted by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife in Southeastern Utah. Ferrets are very hard to locate and the present plan is to have as many .trained personnel as possible m the fifl(l to Qocate one of maiinimals. i The black-footed t an endangered specif one time was f ,M i Ju?n County, Utah Ty," thought to be extinct';'; until several u . 2"Hvngs were renv' 1938-69. Since that (V Hinckley and Rola of the Bureaus Divi-Wildlife Divi-Wildlife Services Warburton. wildlife , for the Bureau of Lm agemcnt, have condiie'v veys and established1', areas where ferrets ar pected. 1 Black-footed ferrets several marking h, or snow which indicate presence. Various ol: malls may leave shW-lings shW-lings and the only 'J, way of locating one s' tually seeing the f(.m |
