CASPER — Weighing less than 1 pound, with short ears, little legs and an endearingly “scampering gait,” the pygmy rabbit is the smallest rabbit species in America. Worryingly, though, its population ...

SPOKANE, WA. -- An emergency effort to save endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits will get its first test next week. Scientists next Tuesday will release nearly two dozen of the animals back into ...

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 ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is planning to look for pygmy rabbits using drones over the next year. WDFW said in a news release Tuesday that its staff would fly drones over known ...

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife are monitoring 32 endangered pygmy rabbits evacuated from a breeding facility scorched by a wildlife last week in Douglas County. Two of the rabbits were ...

SPOKANE, WA. --- Some endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits are being released in the wild today in Eastern Washington in the Sagebrush Flat Wildlife Area, north of Ephrata. These animals were bred ...

EPHRATA - It's Easter, but don't mention that famous egg-hiding bunny to pygmy rabbit savior Penny Becker. "This is all about conservation and recovery out here," Becker said last week at the ...

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