Title
Update on the Fisher Reintroduction to the Northern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Author(s)
Callas, R.;Clifford, D.;Engstrom, T.;Facka, A.N.;Finley, L.;Matthews, S.M.;Smith, K.P.;Powell, R.A.
Published
2015
Publisher
Martes Working Group Newsletter
Abstract
Because of concern for the status of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in California, to understand better why some fisher reintroductions have succeeded while others have failed, and to understand how fishers in particular, and mammalian predators in general, respond to intensive forest management, the California Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sierra Pacific Industries, and North Carolina State University began a collaboration to re-establish a fisher population in the northern Sierra Nevada of California. During late autumns of 2009-2011, we released 40 fishers (24F:16M) onto Sierra Pacific Industry’s 648-km2 Stirling Management Area, which is managed intensively for timber production. We have studied the released fishers and their progeny intensively since 2009 and will continue until at least 2016 (7 years post-reintroduction).

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