Thirty-one black footed ferrets were released Thursday in Colorado according to a story in Friday's Denver Post. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E226864,00.html Some details: This is the first release in Colorado, where the last confirmed sighting of the BFF was in 1943. An estimated 500 BFFs survive after 8 previous releases in Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, South Dakota and Mexico. The mortality rate for newly released ferrets ranges from 40-90%, and many conservation groups criticize the Bureau of Land Management for not doing enough to protect them. The goal is to establish 10 colonies by 2010, with a total population of 1500. Linda Iroff Oberlin OH [Posted in FML issue 3604]