Happy Friday from these swift fox kits! Earlier this fall, the Fort Belknap Indian Community commemorated three years of its swift fox recovery program with the release of swift foxes on Tribal lands. More than 100 of the species have now been reintroduced back to these prairie grasslands in northern Montana. For years, researchers from the @smithsonianzoo and Conservation Biology Institute have been working with Tribal communities and other partners to revitalize the ecosystem and rebuild the swift fox population for the first time since the 1800s. Based on post-release monitoring efforts, the native species is reproducing in the wild, which is a critical measure of success for a self-sustaining population.