Tag: fisher

Fishers often switch dens while raising kits. That can sometimes be a challenge for researchers observing the animals. But the den changes also provide an opportunity for researchers to count...

Martens and fishers may appear rather similar—almost interchangeable. Fishers are a little bigger than martens, but both furry mustelids are found in forest ecosystems and consume similar types of prey....

Snowshoe hares have been disappearing from parts of their southern range for some time now. In the Sandhill State Wildlife Area in Wisconsin, the small mammals were extirpated in the...

In the mid-1900s, fishers were extirpated from Washington state, despite being found historically in various parts of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. But high demand and prices for their pelts in...

Trail cameras have detected the first confirmed wild-born fisher in the North Cascades in years. According to the state of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, photos showed a female...

Trappers in Quebec have been noticing an unusual shift on their lines taking place over the past few decades. Fishers have been on the rise, while martens have been declining....

How do you find an animal so rare or elusive that it evades even the most patient researcher or the most well-placed camera trap? Increasingly, though, scientists are finding success...

In December 2016, Patrick Tate, a wildlife biologist with the state of New Hampshire Fish and Game, noticed a fisher (Martes pennanti) breathing heavily under a tree. When he approached...

After fishers (Pekania pennanti) were reintroduced in the 1990s to Cooking Lake Moraine, a rolling upland region in Central Alberta, researchers didn’t know if their budding population was a result...