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A prescribed burn at our Z Bar Ranch in Kansas.
A 2020 prescribed fire treatment on the mixed grass prairie at our Z Bar Ranch in Kansas controls eastern redcedar encroachment and restores prairie health for lesser prairie chickens.
A Chiricahua leopard frog soaks up some sun in a stock tank at the Ladder Ranch.
A threatened Chiricahua leopard frog sunning its self on an artificial island in a stock tank. Stock tanks on the Ladder Ranch not only provide water for livestock and wildlife but are great refugia for frogs.
Bighorn rams spar at the Turner’s Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico.
Bighorn rams spar while drinking water at one of the rain catchments in the Fra Cristobal Mountains on the Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico. Sometimes one good bump deserves another.
A thirsty mountain lion cautiously balances on the rim a livestock tank to get a drink.
A mountain lion balances on the narrow rim of a livestock tank to get a drink of water when an owl attempts to knock him off balance. The owl and it’s mate had been roosted on the rim of the tank just prior to the lions arrival. Water is often scarce in the Chihuahuan...
A collared female mountain lion on the Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico.
Here is a photo of a collared female mountain lion on the Armendaris Ranch in southwestern New Mexico. Mountain lions are collared and tracked in order to study their diets and behavior. The female lion is dragging a freshly killed coyote to concealment cover before...
TESF is proud to advance the future for prairie dogs, one of the world’s greatest underdogs.
TESF manages prairie dogs on several Turner properties to provide habitat for the endangered black-footed ferret. Prairie dogs also complement Turner's bison herds as these species have co-evolved over thousands of years and constitute a grazing association: bison...
Female Mexican wolf at the Ladder Ranch captive breeding facility.
This is a photo of a breeding female Mexican wolf being temporally held at our captive breeding and pre-release facility at the Ladder Ranch in New Mexico. She along with her mate and four pups are scheduled to be released in Mexico in the near future. TESF has been...
Healthy westslope cutthroat trout on the Flying D Ranch.
A healthy westslope cutthroat trout from Cherry Creek on the Flying D Ranch in Montana. Turner Biodiversity restored these native trout to upper Cherry Creek in a decade long project that concluded in 2010. The population is now regularly monitored to assess health...
Prairie dog plague mitigation
To mitigate plague, we routinely control the flea vectors that carry the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, using an insecticide applied at the burrows. Here we are using a rodent grain bait containing fipronil (commonly used to control fleas on pet cats and dogs) to...
A prescribed burn at our Z Bar Ranch in Kansas.
A 2020 prescribed fire treatment on the mixed grass prairie at our Z Bar Ranch in Kansas controls eastern redcedar encroachment and restores prairie health for lesser prairie chickens.
A Chiricahua leopard frog soaks up some sun in a stock tank at the Ladder Ranch.
A threatened Chiricahua leopard frog sunning its self on an artificial island in a stock tank. Stock tanks on the Ladder Ranch not only provide water for livestock and wildlife but are great refugia for frogs.
Bighorn rams spar at the Turner’s Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico.
Bighorn rams spar while drinking water at one of the rain catchments in the Fra Cristobal Mountains on the Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico. Sometimes one good bump deserves another.
A thirsty mountain lion cautiously balances on the rim a livestock tank to get a drink.
A mountain lion balances on the narrow rim of a livestock tank to get a drink of water when an owl attempts to knock him off balance. The owl and it’s mate had been roosted on the rim of the tank just prior to the lions arrival. Water is often scarce in the Chihuahuan...
A collared female mountain lion on the Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico.
Here is a photo of a collared female mountain lion on the Armendaris Ranch in southwestern New Mexico. Mountain lions are collared and tracked in order to study their diets and behavior. The female lion is dragging a freshly killed coyote to concealment cover before...
TESF is proud to advance the future for prairie dogs, one of the world’s greatest underdogs.
TESF manages prairie dogs on several Turner properties to provide habitat for the endangered black-footed ferret. Prairie dogs also complement Turner's bison herds as these species have co-evolved over thousands of years and constitute a grazing association: bison...
Female Mexican wolf at the Ladder Ranch captive breeding facility.
This is a photo of a breeding female Mexican wolf being temporally held at our captive breeding and pre-release facility at the Ladder Ranch in New Mexico. She along with her mate and four pups are scheduled to be released in Mexico in the near future. TESF has been...
Healthy westslope cutthroat trout on the Flying D Ranch.
A healthy westslope cutthroat trout from Cherry Creek on the Flying D Ranch in Montana. Turner Biodiversity restored these native trout to upper Cherry Creek in a decade long project that concluded in 2010. The population is now regularly monitored to assess health...
Prairie dog plague mitigation
To mitigate plague, we routinely control the flea vectors that carry the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, using an insecticide applied at the burrows. Here we are using a rodent grain bait containing fipronil (commonly used to control fleas on pet cats and dogs) to...