This mustelid seems uncommon in northwestern South Dakota. The only
recent reports from Harding County that have come to our attention are
of a female and four or five young that were found in a haystack
"several years prior to 1963" (Robert Kriege, personal communication),
and of several individuals seen by a rancher in a hay field along the
Little Missouri about 7 mi. N Camp Crook during mowing operations in
July 1970. Visher (1914:91) regarded the species as "quite common," and
noted that "4 or 5 dead ones" were seen along roads in the summer of
1910.
~Mustela nigripes~ (Audubon and Bachman, 1851)