Those of you who have followed the troubled saga of efforts to reintroduce the Black-Footed Ferret can find on the Web now an outstanding article by Andy Abate recapping the entire sad history of this almost-doomed species from the Pleistocene forward. Titled "The Black-footed Ferret: A Natural and Unnatural History,'" it was written by one of the two people who lost their jobs at the Pueblo Preconditioning Center when the USFWS decided last year to release 14 "geriatric" ferrets into the wild. It is probably the definitive study to date on what's wrong and what's right with the reintroduction program. Andy's article can be found at: http://members.gnn.com/AcmeFerret/bffpage/bffhist.htm [Posted in FML issue 1638]