An organizing committee made up of members from AZA and the US Fish and Wildlife Service will work with Steering Committees to facilitate workshops for each of the issue-areas. The committee is currently made up of:
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Pete Gober, Black-footed Ferret Recovery Coordinator
Kimberly Fraser, Outreach Specialist
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Steve Olson, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Project Supervisor
Shelly Grow, Vice President of Conservation and Science, Project Supervisor
In addition, steering committees have been established for the respective issues-area related to this analysis. The composition of those steering committees is as follows:
Managed Care Steering Committee
Chair: Paul Marinari, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Della Garelle, USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center
Klaus Peter Koepfli, Mason School of Conservation/George Mason University
Rachel Santymire, Georgia State University
Robyn Bortner, USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center
Reintroduction Steering Committee
Chair: Travis Livieri, Prairie Wildlife Research
Dean Biggins, Emeritus, USGS Fort Collins Science Center
Tina Jackson, Colorado Parks & Wildlife Department
Tyler Tretten, USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center
Disease Steering Committee
Chair: Tonie Rocke, US Geological Survey
Dan Tripp, Colorado Parks & Wildlife Department
David Eads, USGS Fort Collins Science Center
John Hughes, USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center
Kristy Bly, World Wildlife Fund
Administration and Outreach Steering Committee
Chair: Steve Olson, Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Gail Keirn, APHIS Wildlife Services
Gloria Tom, Navajo Nation
Jason Suckow, APHIS Wildlife Services
John Emmerich, BFF Friends
Ken Morgan, Colorado Parks & Wildlife Department
Kimberly Fraser, USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center
Pete Gober, USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center
Introductory Resources
Introductory Webinar to the 2020 AZA BFF Analysis (January 2020)
Black-footed Ferret 5-Year Review (2020)
Species Status Assessment Report for the Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) (2019)
Recovery Plan for the Black-Footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) (2013)
Reports
A link to the below reports can be found here.
Abbot and Rocke (2012)
Antolin (2008)
Antolin (2002)
Barnes (1993)
Biggins and Eads (2019)
Biggins and Kosoy (2001)
Biggins et al. (2010)
Biggins et al. (2021)
Brinkerhoff et al. (2010)
Cully and Williams (2001)
Eads and Biggins (2015)
Eads and Biggins (2017)
Eads and Biggins (2019)
Eads et al. (2018)
Eads et al. (2019)
Eads et al. (2020)
Eisen and Gage (2009)
Eisen et al. (2006)
Eisen et al. (2008)
Eisen et al. (2009)
Eisen et al. (2015)
Esien et al. (2020)
Gage and Kosoy (2005)
Gage and Kosoy (2006)
Girard et al. (2004)
Hinnebusch et al. (2017)
Hinnebusch et al. (2021)
Matchett et al. (2010)
Miller and Fischer (2016)
Miller et al. (2000)
Pederson et al. (2019)
Poche et al. (2017)
Richgels et al. (2016)
Rocke et al. (2006)
Rocke et al. (2008)
Rocke et al. (2012)
Rocke et al. (2017)
Russell et al. (2019)
Russell et al. (2021)
Salkeld et al. (2007)
Salkeld et al. (2010)
Salkeld et al. (2016)
Savage et al. (2011)
Seery et al. (2003)
Slate et al. (2005)
Tripp et al. (2009)
Tripp et al. (2014)
Tripp et al. (2016)
Tripp et al. (2017)
(Draft workshop reports will be available here after a workshop takes place)