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• “On to Jamon Iberia de Bellota 2 oz., $42, a luxurious rare imported ham from black-footed Spanish pigs which have been fed exclusively on acorns at the end.”

  The Huffington Post: Jay Weston: Why Bazaar's Spanish Chef Got a James Beard Award

• “Below the earth were the tunnels of plowing and burrowing badgers, prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets, mice, foxes, skunks, marmots, thirteen-striped chipmunks and ground squirrels, their subterranean work loosening and aerating the soil, allowing rainfall and snowmelt to recharge the water table below.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “In addition, 160 species of vertebrates, two species of rattle snakes, hawks, weasels, skunks, badgers, bobcats, coyotes, foxes and the endangered black-footed ferret prey on prairie dogs.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies

• “Such measures have helped 64 species recover, including the several that were eradicated in the wild but then reintroduced, such as the California condor and black-footed ferret in the United States and Przewalski's horse in Mongolia.”

  The Guardian: One-fifth of world's back-boned animals face extinction, study warns

• “She wrote more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles and received many professional recognitions, including a Recovery Champion award from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for her work with black-footed ferrets.”

  The Washington Post: JoGayle Howard, a National Zoo scientist who helped breed giant pandas, dies at 59

• “Later, she again adapted insemination techniques for the black-footed ferret, once the most endangered species on the continent.”

  The Washington Post: JoGayle Howard, a National Zoo scientist who helped breed giant pandas, dies at 59

• “A native of North America's western prairie, the black-footed ferret was declared extinct in the 1970s.”

  The Washington Post: JoGayle Howard, a National Zoo scientist who helped breed giant pandas, dies at 59

• “Since the 1980s, more than 6,500 black-footed ferrets have been born, and many have been released into the wild.”

  The Washington Post: JoGayle Howard, a National Zoo scientist who helped breed giant pandas, dies at 59

• “However, you stray off the reservation by taking a sideswipe at the black-footed ferret, greater sage-grouse, orchids and wild mustangs, not to mention the archeological and paleontological professions.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Main Engineering Problems Used to Be Engineering

• “The special, part of the channel's "Women in Science" month, traces Howard's career breeding giant pandas, black-footed ferrets and clouded leopards.”

  The Washington Post: JoGayle Howard documentary on the Smithsonian Channel

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