After nearly 30 years of working to protect the animals with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Jackson became the black-footed ferret recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in ...

Black-footed ferrets, referred to as BFFs in a lawsuit, are not viewed as best friends forever by Kansas landowners suing over their reintroduction.

Ferrets were first reintroduced to Colorado in 2001 at Wolf Creek, north of Rangely. After dozens were released over several years, that site succumbed to a plague outbreak and collapsed by 2010.