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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...
Swainson’s hawks congregate for a meal at the Jornada bat caves on Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch
Swainson’s hawks congregate for a predictable meal during the summer months at the Jornada bat caves on Ted Turner's Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico. These caves are the second largest lava tubes in North America and provide habitat for eight bat species. The migratory...
Prairie dogs are ecosystem engineers
By creating burrow systems, clipping vegetation, and improving the nutrient quality of their habitat, prairie dogs serve as ecosystem engineers that support numerous other native species of the prairie grasslands, including rattlesnakes. Unfortunately, prairie dogs...
Blowout penstemon
For years now, TESF has been assisting with recovery of the species. Since inception in 1997 TESF has been dedicated to arresting the extinction crisis by advancing reintroduction projects for imperiled plants, birds, fishes, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
TESF works to conserve one of New Mexico’s largest remaining Chiricahua leopard frog populations
Water tanks used for bison ranching on the Ladder Ranch in New Mexico have also become important habitat for threatened Chiricahua leopard frogs. TESF works to conserve one of New Mexico's largest remaining Chiricahua leopard frog populations on the Ladder Ranch, and...
Effort under way to benefit critically endangered American burying beetle
Recent scientific publications affirm the extinction crisis as one of humanity’s most pressing and least attended problems. Because of its sweep and humanity’s disregard, it is being cemented into the future. But it does not have to be that way. Such a sad and bleak...
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...
Swainson’s hawks congregate for a meal at the Jornada bat caves on Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch
Swainson’s hawks congregate for a predictable meal during the summer months at the Jornada bat caves on Ted Turner's Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico. These caves are the second largest lava tubes in North America and provide habitat for eight bat species. The migratory...
Prairie dogs are ecosystem engineers
By creating burrow systems, clipping vegetation, and improving the nutrient quality of their habitat, prairie dogs serve as ecosystem engineers that support numerous other native species of the prairie grasslands, including rattlesnakes. Unfortunately, prairie dogs...
Blowout penstemon
For years now, TESF has been assisting with recovery of the species. Since inception in 1997 TESF has been dedicated to arresting the extinction crisis by advancing reintroduction projects for imperiled plants, birds, fishes, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
TESF works to conserve one of New Mexico’s largest remaining Chiricahua leopard frog populations
Water tanks used for bison ranching on the Ladder Ranch in New Mexico have also become important habitat for threatened Chiricahua leopard frogs. TESF works to conserve one of New Mexico's largest remaining Chiricahua leopard frog populations on the Ladder Ranch, and...
Effort under way to benefit critically endangered American burying beetle
Recent scientific publications affirm the extinction crisis as one of humanity’s most pressing and least attended problems. Because of its sweep and humanity’s disregard, it is being cemented into the future. But it does not have to be that way. Such a sad and bleak...