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<blockquote data-quote="Ballistic64" data-source="post: 140756" data-attributes="member: 3401"><p>To tell you the truth BB, after 10+ yrs,I dont think they even know for sure if there are any left alive or not.A few years after being introduced some kind of distemper was killing them off.A couple years ago they reopened hunting the p'dogs on private land that surrounds the area,which is kind of an indication the project is dead ending.Even so,it would more or less take an act of congress to open the public land back up.Talking to some of the Park personell and ranchers in the area,they pretty much agreed that the project was doomed from the start just becuase of the sheer number of ferrets that would be needed to make the reintroduction feasable to start with.Along with distemper and other diseases the ferrets are suseptable to,they are also endangered from many of the diseases the praire dogs are.Just south of this area on the Pine Ridge Indian Res. the p'dog population was decimated by the plague the past couple years.Driving south of the Cheyenne River on BIA #41 on to the reservation,all the way to Ogalala,its strange to see the thousands of p'dog holes and maybe one or two dogs in that 65 mile stretch.The good thing is that it seems the river stopped the plague from coming any farther north.</p><p>JMO,but I believe that the ferrets future is written on the wall,as it would take a much larger piece of real estate than is available here to make such a project feasable.</p><p>In the case of this project,the resentment towards government to introduce this project,taking away land owners rights to manage thier own property (having it destroyed) and interfereing with thier livelyhood,runs deep.</p><p></p><p>All that being said,Id love to spend a day shooting with you BB.Hopefully I can get my 6mm project to Kirby here pretty quick to have it done in time.It gets kind of expensive launching 210 VLDs at them. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ballistic64, post: 140756, member: 3401"] To tell you the truth BB, after 10+ yrs,I dont think they even know for sure if there are any left alive or not.A few years after being introduced some kind of distemper was killing them off.A couple years ago they reopened hunting the p'dogs on private land that surrounds the area,which is kind of an indication the project is dead ending.Even so,it would more or less take an act of congress to open the public land back up.Talking to some of the Park personell and ranchers in the area,they pretty much agreed that the project was doomed from the start just becuase of the sheer number of ferrets that would be needed to make the reintroduction feasable to start with.Along with distemper and other diseases the ferrets are suseptable to,they are also endangered from many of the diseases the praire dogs are.Just south of this area on the Pine Ridge Indian Res. the p'dog population was decimated by the plague the past couple years.Driving south of the Cheyenne River on BIA #41 on to the reservation,all the way to Ogalala,its strange to see the thousands of p'dog holes and maybe one or two dogs in that 65 mile stretch.The good thing is that it seems the river stopped the plague from coming any farther north. JMO,but I believe that the ferrets future is written on the wall,as it would take a much larger piece of real estate than is available here to make such a project feasable. In the case of this project,the resentment towards government to introduce this project,taking away land owners rights to manage thier own property (having it destroyed) and interfereing with thier livelyhood,runs deep. All that being said,Id love to spend a day shooting with you BB.Hopefully I can get my 6mm project to Kirby here pretty quick to have it done in time.It gets kind of expensive launching 210 VLDs at them. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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