Landscapes nature ferret. Fish wildlife service provides support to the regional office and field stations to communicate and faciliate information about the services programs to the public media congress tribes partners and other stakeholders in the 8 state region. States and two canadian provinces. The national wildlife federation brings nature to life in the pages of our publications inspiring people of all ages and reading levels to develop a deeper relationship with our natural world. The office of external affairs for the mountain prairie region of the us.
About a member of the mustelid family which includes the stoat and badger the polecat is roughly the size of a ferret its domesticated cousin. The northern great plains spans more than 180 million acres and crosses five us. Learn more about what wwf is doing to protect its future and how you can help. In the wilds of the canadian rocky mountains a mother moose tends to her newborn calf.
Spring is in full swing but this far north winter is never far away and with hungry bears and wolves for neighbours many challenges lie ahead. Senior scientist and head of the center for species survival at the smithsonian conservation biology institute david wildt has been chosen to receive the 2017 smithsonian distinguished scholar award in the sciences. Thanks to breeding and reintroduction programs black footed ferrets have made an incredible recovery. Meet the moose family.
They once ranged across the western plains but were thought to be extinct until a small population was discovered in 1981. North america is a continent of varied landscapes stretching from the arctic wastes of the far north to the narrow land bridge of central america in the south and bounded by the pacific ocean to the west and the atlantic ocean to the east. Sumatran tigers are the smallest surviving tiger subspecies.