Mountain-Prairie Region

SWIFT FOX ARCHIVES

• News Release: Swift Fox No Longer Candidate for Endangered Species Listing - January 8, 2001

• Wyoming Game and Fish News - January 18, 2001

• News Release: Texas Parks and Wildlife: USFWS Decides Not to List Swift Fox as Threatened  - January 8, 2001

• News Release: Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks: Swift Fox No Longer Endangered List Candidate - January, 9 2001

• Candidate And Listing Priority Assignment Form

• Federal Register Notice: January 8, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 5)]:  Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Annual Notice of Findings on Recycled Petitions

  • Executive Summary
    

  • Entire Notice

  WS Mountain-Prairie Region Swift Fox Fact Sheets

  • North Dakota Field Office

  • Swift Fox Basics
    

   

• Swift Fox Conservation Team

  The swift fox conservation team is a multi-agency group formed in 1994 to work cooperatively on swift fox management and conservation. Composed of representatives from state and federal agencies within the U.S. swift fox range, the team’s primary focus has been to document swift fox distribution in each state where historical records existed

  1999 Swift Fox Conservation Team Annual Report  (200 KB PDF format, 74 pages)

  Individual Sections of the Conservation Team Annual Report

  • Team Members
    

  • Participating Cooperators

    Activity Highlights  (taken from the annual report)

    • Summary of Swift Fox research near Medicine Bow, Wyoming - summer 1999
      

    • Swift Fox completion report (Wyoming)
      
    • Swift fox investigations in New Mexico, 1999
      
    • Texas annual summary of swift fox conservation and management activities
      
    • Swift fox investigations in Oklahoma, 1999
      
    • Swift fox conservation team action items for 1999 (Kansas)
      
    • Survey of furbearers in Fall River County South Dakota with emphasis on swift fox
      
    • Investigation of furbearer occurrence in North Dakota with special reference to swift fox, 1999
      
    • Swift fox investigations on National Grasslands, 1999
      
    • Swift fox survey, Fall River Ranger District, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Nebraska
      

    • Canadian Reintroduction Efforts

    • Turner Properties Reintroduction Efforts

    • Blackfeet Tribe/Defenders of Wildlife Reintroduction Program

• Swift Fox Management Activities in Montana 

  • 1999 - Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks

  • 1998 - Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks

  • 1997 - Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks & Department of Fish and Wildlife Management, Montana State University

  • 1996 - Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks  & Montana State University

• Conservation Team Newsletters

  • Newsletter #1 December 1997

  • Newsletter #2 September 2000

• Swift Fox Conservation Team Members:

  State Agencies:
  Colorado Division of Wildlife
  Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
  Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks
  Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
  New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
  North Dakota Game and Fish Department
  Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
  South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks
  Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
  Wyoming Game and Fish Department

  Federal Agencies:

  U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  U.S.G.S./ Biological Resources Division
  U.S. Forest Service
  U.S.D.A./APHIS, Wildlife Services
  Bureau of Land Management

  Canada:
  Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division

• Other Swift Fox Links

  • Swift Fox Symposium:  Ecology and Conservation of Swift Foxes in a Changing World

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