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They are making a strong comeback in WY and surrounding states after a plague destroyed much of their prey: Prairie Dogs.

Edit: They were considered (close to) extinct but not any longer, and I blame this on humans.

It was the popularity of pet ferrets in the 1980s that inspired humans to make a concerted effort to study and repopulate the species in 1987. It was humans that brought them back from the brink.