The ranch also may be home to threatened or endangered species, including Canada lynx, American marten, snowshoe hare and Gunnison’s prairie dog.
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Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
28 June 2026
Otters are part of the weasel family (Mustelidae), which includes some of nature’s most ferocious pint-sized predators, such as badgers, martens, and wolverines.
Both minks and otters are mustelids, a family of carnivores that also includes badgers, weasels, and wolverines.
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Kassia Bonesteel,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Over the next several decades, a roll call of Pennsylvania’s native animals would be extirpated, including mountain lions, wolves, wolverines, badgers, pine marten, and fisher cats; whitetail deer were nearly wiped out of the state, as were black bears and turkeys.
The scheme targeting Zimbler involved daily Microsoft Teams chats and video calls, more than 10 fake government documents with official-looking seals — including a federal arrest warrant — and two wire transfers.
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Ella Moore
July 2,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
If the seals fail or materials become brittle and shatter under the thermal shock, the entire mission is at risk.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
30 June 2026
These passages are called portages, a term derived from English and French trappers who, alongside Indigenous nations like the Ojibwe and the Dakota, collected pelts for the lucrative fur trade from the late 17th century to the early 19th.
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John Bowe,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
The beautiful array of their divergent sizes and pelts coalesced as oils on canvas and rendered their exploits almost dreamlike.
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