Yesterday's (Monday) newspaper from Phoenix, the Arizona Republic, had a front page story and photo about the Phoenix Zoo's Conservation Center and the success of the captive breeding program that symposium attendees visited in June. Read it for yourself ar www.azcentral.com. You will have to use the search bar at the top of the page. There is going to be a celebration event at the zoo each day this weekend. They didn't mention in the story that four of the cages were remodeled recently to accommodate some Mount Graham red squirrels, a species of concern here in Arizona that are restricted to a small area east of Tucson. Like Noah's ark, some squirrels are being kept at the zoo in case a forest fire ravages their home range. I don't know what that did to the ferret population at the zoo. Carol J. Owens Ferret Friends, Inc. Tucson AZ [Posted in FML 7190]