While someday I’d love to chase fishers in their traditional big-woods habitat, it’s a testament to the adaptability of the species that the farm country trapper can catch the beautiful “black cat” on their home turf. By scouting to find locations the animals frequent and using bait in the preseason, this wonderful furbearer can be added to the trapper’s fur board. [Read More]
Tag Archives: Fishers
North! To New Trapping Adventures
The author traveled outside of his comfort zone to experience fisher and marten trapping firsthand. Follow along to the frozen north country. [Read More]
Fisher Spotted in NYC Is First Seen There in Modern Times
A fisher has been seen roaming the streets of the Bronx in recent weeks. It is the first fisher seen in New York City in modern times, according to the New York Times. “At dawn on April 15, a city police … [Read More]
Marijuana to Blame for Decline in California Fisher Population?
Rat poison used to keep rodents out of illegal marijuana growing operations in California could be killing fishers in the state. A new study conducted by biologists from the University of California-Davis found that nearly 80 percent of the fishers they … [Read More]
School Days: An Excited Youngster
March 2007 School Days [Read More]