For the curious: here's the article at the Defenders of Wildlife website, from Defenders Magazine, Summer 2005, titled Toughing It Out in the Badlands: Black-footed ferrets battle for survival in the nation's heartland by Paul Tolme.

Here's the blog page at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books where news of the plagiarism was first broken.

Here's the article in Newsweek.

There may be more.