Eloise Ogden/MDN ABOVE: Quinn Iffert, left, and Ellie Johnson, zookeepers at Roosevelt Park in Minot, took part in a program to spotlight black-footed ferrets to count the numbers of these animals and monitor those living in Badlands National Park in South Dakota.

When Quinn Iffert and Ellie Johnson, zookeepers at Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, took part in a project to spotlight black-footed ferrets in Badlands National Park in South Dakota, biopsy cells from the ferret they captured were sent to the Smithsonian Institute to make stem cells for future research.

Iffert and Johnson, with several others from the Minot zoo, including a Greater Minot Zoological Society Board member, traveled to the park in southwest South Dakota to take part in the project in October to spotlight the animals t

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