SPOKANE — An emergency effort to save endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits will get its first test next week when state and federal scientists release nearly two dozen of the animals back into ...

SPOKANE – An emergency effort to save endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits will get its first test next week when state and federal scientists release nearly two dozen of the animals back into ...

EPHRATA — Wildlife experts are making one last effort to save the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, believed extinct in the wild since mid-2004. The pygmy rabbit is the smallest rabbit in North ...

ENDANGERED SPECIES-- Up to 100 pygmy rabbits—from captive-breeding facilities and from the wild in Oregon—will be released in Washington's Douglas county in the continued effort to reestablish the ...

EPHRATA — The 20 endangered pygmy rabbits that were reintroduced to the wild with great fanfare last month aren’t faring so well. At last report, state biologists said 16 of the 20 rabbits had been ...

WENATCHEE — “Sometimes you don’t apply for a job, a job applies for you,” said Jon Gallie, wildlife biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), on how he became involved with ...

EPHRATA, WASH. — Two groups of tiny, dark-eyed, salt-and-pepper rabbits were released in a sagebrush field in eastern Washington last week, raising the population of Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits in ...

EPHRATA — With pillow cases hanging from their back pockets, metal toilet snakes capped with tennis balls coiled in their hands and dirt covering their clothes, Dave Volson and Chad Eidson looked like ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. SALMON, Idaho — The hardships facing the pygmy rabbit of the western ...

If I say the sky is purple and you say it’s blue, so I challenge you to prove it, what would you do? How do you prove something nobody has spent money studying because it’s never been questioned ...