Colorado Parks and Wildlife's Caity Brown, right, and Brandon Bagon shine their spotlights over a prairie dog town Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025, on the Walker Ranch west of Pueblo as they search for black-footed ferrets. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
Colorado Parks and Wildlife conservation biologist Ed Schmal uses a spot light to search for black-footed ferrets among the praire dog towns Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025, on the Walker Ranch west of Pueblo. Ferret’s eyes reflect green in the spotlight, allowing Schmal to find them. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)Colorado Parks and Wildlife conservation biologist Ed Schmal searches a prairie dog hole for black-footed ferrets Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025, on the Walker Ranch west of Pueblo. Ferrets hunt prairie dogs and live in their holes. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)A rabbit jumps across the spotlight of Colorado Parks and Wildlife conservation biologist Ed Schmal as he searches for signs of the black-footed ferret on the Walker Ranch west of Pueblo on Wednesday night Oct. 22, 2025. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)Colorado Parks and Wildlife conservation biologist Ed Schmal looks through his binoculars to see if the reflection in the distance is a black-footed ferret Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025, on the Walker Ranch west of Pueblo. The reflection was the eyes of a pronghorn. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)Biology technician Brandon Bagon, left, and conservation biologist Ed Schmal with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife set up their spotlights for a long evening searching for the black-footed ferret on the Walker Ranch west of Pueblo Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Caity Brown, right, and Brandon Bagon shine their spotlights over a prairie dog town Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025, on the Walker Ranch west of Pueblo as they search for black-footed ferrets. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
