According to a story on the Utah DWR pages, ferrets were introduced at Snake John Reef last month in an effort to not only increase their populations, but also to hopefully aid in research to produce a vaccine for sylvatic plague. Similar to black plague in humans, sylvatic plague can wipe out a ferret population.
Utah's ferrets have been dying off due to the disease and officials are trying to stop that. These guys that were released were given a vaccine. They will be monitored, and the effectiveness of the vaccine determined.
Good luck to the ferrets!
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